Todd Bodine has won four of the last five NASCAR Truck Series races at Daytona and Talladega, so his Germain Racing team heads to Daytona next week with optimism. What the team doesn’t have is sponsorship yet for the 2010 season. Like many teams, Germain Racing is starting the year unsure of what the future holds. Bodine is the 2006 series champion and has finished in the top four in points in each of the last five years. The team is trying to work with partners from past seasons to put together a program. It will go to Daytona with Bodine and also bring a truck for Max Papis. For Truck teams looking for sponsorship, they have time to work on sponsorship before the meat of the truck schedule. After the Feb. 12 season-opener at Daytona, there’s only one race over the next five weeks (March 6 at Atlanta) and then after back-to-back race weekends at Martinsville and Nashville, there’s four weeks before the race at Kansas. The team was able to find enough sponsorship last year, piecing together programs throughout the season. “We did it all year last year, we made it work and survived,” [Mike] Hillman Jr. said. “We’re ready to go, building stuff, working hard in the shop.”(SceneDaily.com)(1-31-2010)
