to #38 M&M’s and #88-UPS Ford team owner Robert Yates who missed his first race at Daytona in decades. Yates was suffering from kidney stones and stayed behind in the Mooresville, NC area.(7-3-2005)
UPDATE: Robert Yates, Ford’s legendary patriarch of horsepower, missed last weekend’s Pepsi 400 at Daytona but intends to be back at the track for this weekend’s USG Sheetrock 400 at Chicagoland Speedway, near Joliet, Ill. Yates, 61, had surgery for kidney stones last week and was advised by doctors and family members to stay home and rest. The news here, of course, is that Yates missed a Daytona race for the first time since the 1960s, when he was beginning his apprenticeship with Ford’s Holman-Moody stock-car powerhouse in Charlotte.(Ford Racing)(7-7-2005)
