on Monday’s NASCAR Now on ESPN2, #36 Chevy Sprint Cup Series team owner Tommy Baldwin said his team will race all events through Kansas and are working on more sponsorship so driver Dave Blaney can run the full season. Baldwin says he will evaluate things after Dover when the teams come back to the Charlotte area.(4-19-2011)
UPDATE: After leading the second-most laps (21) last Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway and coming close to scoring at least his first top 10 since 2008, Dave Blaney is hoping he and the #36 Tommy Baldwin Racing team can continue to run whole races and gain on the momentum that has been building for the third-year Sprint Cup Series team. “Yeah, we’ve got some [races] lined up. Hopefully, we’ll have something firmed up with Golden Corral soon to run a few more. And Accell Construction has been with us for a few races and are going to do a few more,” Blaney told News/Talk WSB during a test Wednesday at Gresham Motorsports Park in Jefferson. “We’ll keep doing that  see how many races he can get sponsored and see how many we can afford to run. You know, funding determines how hard you can run, how much equipment you can afford to burn up.” #36 team owner, Tommy Baldwin, told ESPN’s NASCAR Now earlier this week that the team has funding through the June 5th Kansas Speedway race, but then would have to evaluate his Cup program after that. Blaney says that team will at least be able to go to all of the races. “For sure. We are going to go to all of them, no doubt. It’s just when you get there, can you swing racing hard all day. That’s the question. We have [raced hard] every race this year and hopefully can keep that going.” In other words, Blaney says that the #36 team will start-and-park at races that it does not have adequate funding, a practice that is prevalent amongst smaller teams in each of NASCAR’s top-three national series. The #36 has only started-and-parked once this season, after doing so in the majority of races last year.( wsbradio.com)(4-22-2011)
