Penske to Dodge? may be true after all UPDATE: A Penske Racing South official said the organization is still talking with Dodge about a potential switch from Fords to Intrepids for Rusty Wallace and Ryan Newman next year. At this point, there is no clear favorite, though speculation remains that it will take a blockbuster offer for the teams to switch.(Winston Cup Scene – need subscription to read online)(8-1-2002) UPDATE: from a DW column on Foxsports: “I firmly believe that Indiana native Ryan Newman, two-time Brickyard 400 runner up Rusty Wallace and Penske Racing will switch to Dodge next year based on what I know and what I’ve been told. There’s some pretty extensive testing going on, and I don’t believe they’d be doing the kind of testing that they’re doing if they weren’t pretty serious about making the switch so it wouldn’t come as a big surprise to me. I’d give it a 98.9 percent chance that it could happen. That’s going out on a limb a little bit. I know the Penske shop has got a good relationship with Ford, but just keep an eye on that situation because I’ve got a gut feeling that that could happen.”(FoxSports)(8-2-2002)
