hearing there will be a new Truck team, the #49 Chevy truck owned by longtime racer, Doug Thompson, and the Covenant Race Team from Chapman, KS with driver Trent Owen and sponsor is Dickies. This team will race in a limited number of events for year 2001 and plans it’s marketing debut the first part of April at Dickies corporate headquarters just down the road from the Texas Motor Speedway(3-1-2001) UPDATE: Trent Owens, the nephew of NASCAR legend Richard Petty, was designated lead driver for the new Dickies Racing team (a partnership between Williamson-Dickie Mfg. Co. of Ft. Worth and Kansas City’s Covenant Racing team) for the CTS during the 2001 season, the truck will be #49 and run at least in the two Texas races and at Gateway, Kansas City and Phoenix(see full story and an image at Catchfence)(4-2-2001) UPDATE: The Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing Co., maker of the popular Dickies Workwear clothing brand, announced today it has entered into a NASCAR marketing association with Countryman Motorsports for the 2002 CTS season. The venture brings together two CTS owners – Preston Countryman and Billy Ballew – who each ran select event schedules during the 2001 NCTS season. By joining forces, Countryman Motorsports combines resources to run the entire 2002 schedule, and operates out of Ballew’s existing shop in Mooresville, NC. The team has named Trent Owens as the driver of the #15 Dickies Ford, and will attempt to capture the Raybestos NCTS Rookie of the Year Award. Owens ran three NCTS races for Countryman and three for Ballew in 2001.(Motorsports Management Group PR)(12-11-2001)
