Twenty-four Busch teams that ran at Dover last year didn’t make the trip this time.(from the Winston Salem Journal), I did a very rough comparison between 2003 and 2004, didn’t see 24 cars not there, a few like the #22 Bost, #92 team, #28 Baker team, #7 Evans, #26 Carrol have closed up or suspended operations. A few teams were local or one-off teams like #91 Barfield which is Stanton Barrett’s deal, the #60 with Barrett is the same Roush team that ran last year, #48 Innovative moved to the CTS series, ppc Racing moved one of it’s teams to the Trucks, the #77 is not racing as much with driver Neuenberger ill. The little blurb does not take into account some of the new teams: #55-Gordon, #33 APR full-time in 2004, the #19 changed numbers to #32, the #73 is now #10, Fitz-Bradshaw expanded to 2 cars [#12/14], the #17 was sold to Roush, ST Motorsports expanded to two teams [#59/#47], #00 full-time, Chance2 #8 is now full-time, new RWI #66 team – part-time, #44 is now the #24, #02-Sadler is now full-time, #6 Badwin team is a strong part-time team. Sooooooo…..after doing some reaserch, it doesn’t look so bad for the Busch Series.(6-6-2004)
