hearing multiple Cup team owner(#’s 6,16,17,97,99), Jack Roush, will shut down the #16 Team, freeing up driver Kevin Lepage to look for other rides. Lepage is one of the driver up for the #4 Morgan McClure ride, but that looks like it’s going to go to Robby Gordon. Also hear that Lepage is close to buying a new shop for his #71 BGN team and could always run that full time if a Cup ride does not materialize(11-14-2000) UPDATE: Roush Racing representatives have confirmed that the #16 team, with Kevin Lepage as driver this year, will be shut down after the season because of lack of sponsorship. Sources inside the team said late Wednesday that what had been suspected since late summer was now true. The move reduces owner Jack Roush’s Winston Cup stable from five teams to four. The #97 lost sponsor John Deere in late summer, with no replacement named. Roush has declared he will run the #97 with rookie Kurt Busch in 2001, sponsor or not.(SpeedVision)(11-16-2000)
