Defending series champion Todd Bodine may not be going to the Nationwide Series next year, as previously announced last month by Germain Racing. Germain planned on expanding to three teams with Bodine trading his #30 Toyota Tundra for a Camry, but those plans could change if the newly named Nationwide circuit runs a COT-type car in 2009, as rumored. “We don’t want to waste our money building a bunch of cars that we can’t use in a year. They’re going to be junk,” Bodine said. “We don’t have to be in [Nationwide]. If we stay in trucks another year, that’s fine.” Then, when the time comes to make a move, Germain may just go to the top of the NASCAR ladder. “We want to grow the business, that would be the [Nationwide] series at this time,” Bodine said. “But being that it’s COT cars, we might just skip that and go straight to Cup if we get the funding.”(ESPN.com)(10-4-2007)
UPDATE: Todd Bodine told Mike Bagley during Friday’s NASCAR Today on the MRN Radio show that Germain Racing will be staying in the CTS and NOT go Nationwide (Busch) racing next year because “NASCAR decided in ’09 the Nationwide Series going to COT cars and there was no sense of us wasting $350,000 to $400,000 on race cars that we would have to sell the next year for pennies on the dollar.”(10-28-2007)
