Kyle Busch said Saturday that he’s still trying to sign a sponsor so that 2008 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Johnny Benson can run full time this season in a third Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota Tundra. “We’re still working on sponsorship projects for Johnny Benson in order to get him down to Daytona,” Busch said Saturday in Nashville, where he was attending the Sprint Sound & Speed Presented by SunTrust fan event. “We have till the 22nd to make something happen to that. We’ll see how it works out. But I’d really like to get Johnny down to Daytona and be able to have him compete for a championship for Kyle Busch Motorsports.”(SPEEDtv.com)(1-11-2010)
UPDATE: Rick Ren, who won series titles as crew chief for Ron Hornaday in two of the last three years, is the team’s competition director and has most of the personnel in place. Eric Phillips, who most recently was with Randy Moss Motorsports, will be crew chief for the truck shared by Busch and Brian Ickler. Dan Stillman, who spent much of last year as crew chief for Roush Fenway Racing’s Carl Edwards in the Nationwide Series, will be the crew chief for Tayler Malsam. Both have worked with Ren before; Phillips at Bang Racing and Stillman at Kevin Harvick Inc.(SceneDaily.com)(1-11-2010)
