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Carl Long news:

Carl Long news: Carl Long and the #85 Mansion Motorsports team will be back racing in 2002. The team plans to attempt the Daytona 500 with a brand new Dodge and Petty Dodge engines (from 2001, PE will go with a different engine builder). The team will go to the Daytona January (7th-10th) test to test out the new car and engines if they are able to finish the car in time. There is not a 2002 chedule yet for the races Mansion Motorsports plans to attempt, but it is possible the team will run 6-10 races. Also Long wants to let a west coast team use his Dodge engines that he recieved from Petty Enterprises so that he can drive in Winston Cup races on the west coast. Long also wants to use the engines in the BGN and CTS(Mansion Motorsports Site)(12-11-2001) (12-10-2001)