Hendrick Motorsports is planning to move up the Winston Cup debut of its Busch Series driver, Brian Vickers. Vickers, who leads the Busch points race, was already planning to run this season’s last four Cup races with MB2 Motorsports [ #01 US Army Pontiac ]. He will move full time to Cup next season in Hendrick’s #25 Chevrolet [with GMAC as a sponsor]. However, Vickers, 19, now hopes to make his Cup debut in the Oct. 11 UAW-GM Quality 500 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., where he will run the #60 Chevrolet, Hendrick’s research and development team. Hendrick officials confirmed the plans Friday. The Busch Series is off this weekend and Vickers was away testing and unavailable for comment.( ThatsRacin.com )(9-26-2003)
