Atwood Won’t Know for another week or so: Casey Atwood won’t learn his fate with Evernham Motorsports until after Thanksgiving, Atwood’s father said yesterday. Atwood, 22, has one year left on his three-year contract with Ray Evernham. Atwood drove the #7 Sirius Dodge most of this season under a partnership between Evernham and Jim Smith, but Evernham terminated that partnership after Smith replaced Atwood with Jason Leffler with two races to go. ”Ray told Casey he wanted to wait until after Thanksgiving, then they’ll get together,” Casey’s father, Terry Atwood, said yesterday. ”Right now, Casey doesn’t know a thing.”(Tennessean)(11-22-2002)
