Last Wednesday, Chuck Rider sold Bahari’ Racing to Jack Birmingham, a Boston businessman who immediately renamed the team. One of Birmingham’s first moves was to hire Dodson, who led Rusty Wallace to the 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup championship as his crew chief. Now Dodson is busy assembling a new team to get Jimmy Dean Pontiac driver Derrike Cope back on track. Dodson was Cope’s crew chief at Whitcomb Racing(#10 Purolator Chevy) in 1992 before the operation shut down. It’s that history that has Dodson hopeful of returning Cope to competitive form. Dodson hasn’t served as a Winston Cup crew chief since 1995(#42 Kyle Petty), but he has 19 career wins in NASCAR’s big leagues and his drivers have won more than $8 million. See the rest of the story at: SpeedVision/iRace
