Though Friday’s attempt with Derrike Cope at the wheel of the #79 Dodge originally was trumpeted as a “one-race deal,” Arnold Motorsports owners, Don Arnold quickly put the Homestead-Miami numbness behind him and went to work on the 2004 Nextel Cup campaign. “I bought my new building (in Mooresville, N.C.) yesterday. So where am I going to go?” he reflected. “We’re here for the duration and Derrike and I are working on some things. We hope to do a lot of stuff together next year. We’re going to do some testing and see what goes on from there. We’re going to do part of a Busch schedule next year, too, with another driver. That came about in the last half hour since qualifying ended today. So there are a lot of things happening.”( Naples Daily News )(11-15-2003)
