Hills Bros not expected back on the #23 UPDATE:: during an interview on FSN’s Totally NASCAR, #23 (and #22 and #27) team owner, Bill Davis, says he doesn’t expect Hill Brothers Coffee back as a sponsor in 2003 and it looks like it was a one-year deal.(7-24-2002) UPDATE: word is that car owner Bill Davis is signing a $12 million sponsorship deal with Stacker2 and driver Kenny Wallace for the #23 ride. Where the Davis-Wallace deal leaves Hut Stricklin, currently Ward Burton’s teammate on the Davis roster, is unclear; Stricklin’s sponsor, Sara Lee’s Hills Brothers coffee, must tell Davis by Aug. 15 if it wants to ante up for another season. But five of Hill’s key racing executives were released in a shakeup in early June, leaving the future of that sponsorship cloudy.(Winston Salem Journal)(7-26-2002)
