UPDATE: hearing Yellow Freight may be the sponsor for the #1 car(11-6-2000)
UPDATE 2: now hearing PJ Jones will drive the #1 Yellow Freight car in 20 races, no idea what happens to Parsons, but he may end up in the TV Booth from what I hear(11-7-2000)
UPDATE 3: Parsons said Nov. 6 that he has been working on another opportunity since June and that he should know something about it in the near future, but declined to give further details. He denied rumors that he was making plans to retire as a driver(Winston Cup Scene)(11-9-2000)
UPDATE 3: Yellow Freight should deliver a signed contract to #1 Phoenix owner James Finch in the next day or so. P.J. Jones, son of Indy-racing great Parnelli Jones, will drive the #1 Fords/Chevy/Pontiacs(yes three manufacturers) Jeff Purvis will drive for Phoenix Racing as the team returns to Winston Cup superspeedway racing. Phoenix held its fifth-annual open house to benefit St. Andrew Bay Center, which has served adults with disabilities for more than 40 years. The fund-raising goal was $30,000. To get Jones more familiar with the Busch cars, crew chief Marc Reno has mapped out anambitious testing schedule, which will have the team practicing every week until February’s season-opener at Daytona. Jones took the wheel of the Yellow Freight car last April and came with the sponsor to Phoenix. The practice time will be valuable because Jones figures to drive a Ford, Pontiac and Chevy at various times this season. As a kind of free agent when it comes to car manufacturers, Phoenix is playing the field. The team will take each model to Daytona for testing and race the fastest car. During the season they will use the model Reno and Jones believe is best suited to a particular track. The team also decided to venture back into Winston Cup with an old friend Purvis who competes in the Busch series with Joe Gibbs Racing. Purvis and Finch teamed on dirt tracks all the way to the big tracks for more than a decade before parting ways in 1998. They have, however, discussed joining forces again the past few years, Purvis said. The opportunity came with Bill Elliott’s decision to chunk his Fords and join the new Dodge team. His brother, Ernie, called Finch to gauge his interest in the engines Ernie Elliott had built. Finch purchased the engines, is having some car bodies assembled and will run the four Winston Cup superspeedway races with Fords next year at Talladega and Daytona. Sponsorship for the four Winston Cup races has not been secured, but given the success Phoenix has had at NASCAR’s two longest tracks and the $190,000 to be earned for making the field for the Daytona 500, the payoff could be sufficient to make sponsorship an afterthought(News Herald)(12-10-2000)