John McGill is flattered by the attention but wants to make it plain he and his co-owner, wife Nancy McGill, have long-term plans for DCT Motorsports in the NASCAR Busch Series. Rumors of the team’s possible sale are untrue [not at Jayski, no idea where the rumor was], he said, and have no basis. “Being in the rumor mill in this sport is almost a badge of honor. NASCAR racing was pretty much built on rumors,” McGill laughed, “but this one has no foundation at all. We haven’t talked with anyone at any level about selling DC Motorsports, and we don’t have any interest whatsoever in selling DCT Motorsports.” As far as McGill is concerned, the team is moving in the right direction. In its first full year of operation, it has picked up momentum over the past several weeks and has begun making something of a charge in the points standings. Driver Stanton Barrett, who has 1259 points, is 17th in the NASCAR Busch Series standings, just 24 points out of the top 15 and just over 100 out of the top 13. In fact, if you take Barrett’s points average over the past six races, he is running at a pace that would place him in the top 10 of the standings for the season. The team was first nationally noticed with Barrett’s strong run on the road course at Mexico City, where he was at the front of the field most of the last part of the race before being tagged by a car behind him. His three top-19 finishes in the last six races have helped the team tremendously, giving them solid runs and lead-lap finishes, a string broken only when he was caught up in a large crash immediately in front of him at Talladega. “We’re working hard on sponsorship for the team and I want all of those companies we have talked with to know Nancy and I are here for the long haul,” McGill said. “We’ve come up with some unique and cost-efficient ways for sponsorship to work for companies on a regional and national level, and we want to continue making headway in that direction.”(Williams Company)(6-8-2005)
