#49 BAM Racing co-owners Beth Ann and Tony Morgenthau are uncertain who will drive the #49 Dodge next season after several major teams’ negotiations intensified. BAM Racing co-owners Beth Ann and Tony Morgenthau are unwittingly in a high-stakes game of musical Nextel Cup drivers. The couple isn’t sure if veteran Ken Schrader still will be sitting in the cockpit of their #49 Dodge, as he has for three seasons, or if he will be taking over Ricky Rudd’s #21 Ford ride for the legendary Wood Brothers. “We’re going to let the Wood Brothers say it,” Beth Ann Morgenthau said Monday. “We’re not going to say anything. [Schrader] popped it on us.” The Morgenthaus are two seasons into a three-year deal with primary sponsor Schwan’s. The 50-year-old Schrader said in February he planned to end his Cup career when that deal ended in 2007. The team publicists were considering a farewell tour called: “Schrader’s Schwan Song.”(Miami Herald)(11-1-2005)
