UPDATE: During ESPN2’s coverage of the Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas, Allen Bestwick said the #60 team had not been able to secure sponsorship for Bristol and the team was unlikely to attempt the race.(3-10-2012)
UPDATE 2: Nationwide champ Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has partial-season deals with two sponsors, but he’s still missing the big-money backer for which he’s been searching. And Trevor Bayne has what is expected to be approximately 19 races between Cup and Nationwide, enough to keep him in the car but not enough to keep him there every week. However, the shifting sponsor-team power struggle and the focus of RFR to keep its young stars within the family and on the track has led to struggles that team president Steve Newmark say are showing signs of lessening. Newmark said he expected to have some announcements in the next two to three weeks regarding sponsorship for Stenhouse, and said the team was having several meetings about Kenseth. Bayne’s situation, however, was described by Newmark as “the one that has been tough and that I think is going to be difficult.” The 21-year-old is third in the Nationwide points; all of those races were run without sponsorship. However, Saturday’s Sam’s Town 300 at Las Vegas was the last guaranteed Nationwide race for Bayne this season. Newmark is hoping Bayne can get a minimum of six more races the rest of the season. But nothing is written in stone, and that’s hard for Bayne to swallow as he hunts hard for even local sponsorship for the next two races â Bristol and Auto Club Speedway. “I’d love to to run the full deal; that’s my goal” Bayne said. “We’ve got to make sure we can get to Bristol and California first, and then we have two weeks off to try to work on it.”(NASCAR.com)(3-11-2012)
UPDATE 3: Trevor Bayne and the #60 team have been added to the entry list with Lally Horse Stables as the sponsor.(3-13-2012)