March 22, 2000
- Paint Schemes UPDATE 2: hearing that Mark Martin will run a “New Life” schemes and Terry Labonte a “Fruit Loops” schemes, have not heard where, but Labonte has run schemes before at Michigan Speedway, near the headquarters of Kelloggs. No idea what “New Life” represents. Also hearing that Jeff Gordon will run a Pokemon scheme in the Winston
UPDATE: correction, the Martin scheme will be “MaxLife” for a new Valvoline motor oil for cars with 75,000+ miles. Supposedly Martin will run the scheme for six races. The car will have the normal scheme but the rear will be read instead of blue and have “MaxLife” instead of “Valvoline” on the 1/4 panels(3-22-2000)
UPDATE 2 Martin: Mark Martin will bring a new car with a new paint scheme to Bristol. Martin will race JR-82, a new addition to the Roush stable. The car will be painted in the colors of MaxLife, a new Valvoline motor oil. The MaxLife paint scheme will also be featured at Texas and Martinsville in April, at Richmond in May, and at both the Coca-Cola 600 and The Winston in May(J-Mar Express Newsletter). ALSO Martin will run the “Eagle One” paint scheme at the April Talladega race, at California and Michigan in June. A “Stars and Stripes” scheme will be run at the Pepsi 400 in Daytona and the “Zerex” scheme will run in October’s Talladega race(3-22-2000) - Templates? Dodge? UPDATE 2 delay: hearing NASCAR has told Ray Evernham to stop building his Dodge prototype until they finalize a common template supposedly based on Ford(3-18-2000)
UPDATE: Winston Cup series director Gary Nelson attempted to dispel growing talk in the garage area Sunday that NASCAR was close to issuing common templates for each manufacturer. NASCAR officials have been re-examining the issue of common templates since the 2000 season started to help produce cars that are as equal as possible aerodynamically on the race tracks. Despite Nelson’s comments, several team officials said Sunday they expected some version of the common template idea to gain NASCAR approval in the near future. One reason for the growing concern Sunday was a rumor which made its way on the Internet that Ray Evernham’s new Dodge operation was told to put its car-building plans on hold until NASCAR’s common templates were issued. Evernham denied that claim(..full story at: That’s Racin’)(3-19-2000)
UPDATE 2 Dodge Delay: Dodge has put on hold its first car tests, planned for the end of this month at Homestead, FL, while awaiting a decision from NASCAR on the so-called “common template” intended to standardize certain body lines of all the participating makes(full story at SpeedVision)(3-22-2000) - No Cope at Bristol: the #15 Fenley-Moore Motorsports team and driver Derrike Cope will not be at Bristol this weekend. Cope rumored to be under consideration for the #14 AJ Foyt opening after Bristol, has notasked for his release from the team(3-22-2000)
- Crew Changes: The #25 MichaelHoligan.com team has two new crew members for driver Jerry Nadeau. Raymond “Rizzo” Schepler takes over as Parts Mgr in the shop and for Bristol only Jeff McKinney will be the front tire carrier(not changer) as Ray Holm Jr., is no longer with the team(Cotter Group)(3-22-2000)
- Dana Stock: Monday night during On The Circuit, aired on Live On The Net each Monday night at 9:00pm/et, Bobby Hamilton said the Dana Corp. sent shares of stock to the crew members after Joe Ruttman won at Phoenix Saturday. A nice way to say Thank You for a job well done(3-22-2000)
- Woodside News: Sean Woodside, the 1999 NASCAR Winston West champion plans to compete in three divisions this weekend at two different racetracks. On Friday night, Woodside will be at Mesa Marin Raceway at the helm of the #4 REF Motorsports-owned Featherlite Southwest Series, NASCAR Touring car, his full-time ride for the 1999 season. He is also entered in Saturday night’s Late Model event at Irwindale Speedway and in Sunday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Dodge California 250 at Mesa Marin(PR)(3-22-2000)
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