March 24, 2000
- Bodine Update: From the Watkins Glen chat with Geoffrey Bodine: The pins came out of his wrist on Thursday. Bodine is working with his personal trainer to get back into shape. He plans to be at next week’s race at Texas as a spectator and advisor to the team, and to return to racing at California. He also hopes to return to driving at a testing session at Richmond the week before that California race(Watkins Glen Site, thanks Matt)(3-24-2000)
- Hearn to NASCAR? Richie Hearn had planned on competing in Sunday’s CART season opener at Homestead. Instead, Hearn will be a spectator when the green flag drops on the 2000 CART season — only he won’t be at Homestead. Hearn, who lost his ride Friday with longtime team owner John Della Penna, said he likely would spend Sunday afternoon at Bristol Motor Speedway watching the Food City 500 NASCAR Winston Cup race. Hearn is not sure what he wants to do yet and is looking at different venues to race(Las Vegas Sun)(3-24-2000)
- Foyt Comments: A.J. Foyt would put Arlington’s David Starr in his #14 Conseco Pontiac next weekend at Texas Motor Speedway if he could but Foyt hasn’t decided who will drive for him at TMS, and he believes Winston Cup drivers should be handicapped when they compete in BGN races, along with comments on Greg Ray and Mark Martin(full story at the Dallas Morning News)(3-24-2000)
- Hammond fined: NASCAR announced that they have penalized 397 John Deere/Roush Racing crew chief Jeff Hammond was fined $7,500 for rules violations discovered in inspection prior to last Sunday’s Mall.com 400 at Darlington Raceway. In the standard pre-race inspection, NASCAR Winston Cup Director Gary Nelson said inspectors discovered 14 pounds of lead that was improperly positioned in the driver’s compartment of the #97 Ford(NASCAR Online-NOL) also SpeedVision talks about the drivers water bottle(3-24-2000)
- Templates, another UPDATE: Speedway Illustrated was told by reliable sources this afternoon that Cup teams are expecting to get common templates from NASCAR in the next three to five weeks. They also expect that the new template configuration will be raced at Talladega for the October 15, 2000 race to be sure the teams have time to bring refined cars to the 2001 Daytona 500. Reportedly the templates will be based on the Taurus as it has the best overall aerodynamic properties. Using the Taurus will make it easier to get all the other teams to accept the common template(see full story at Speedway Illustrated)(3-24-2000)
- Hearn to NASCAR? Richie Hearn had planned on competing in Sunday’s CART season opener at Homestead. Instead, Hearn will be a spectator when the green flag drops on the 2000 CART season — only he won’t be at Homestead. Hearn, who lost his ride Friday with longtime team owner John Della Penna, said he likely would spend Sunday afternoon at Bristol Motor Speedway watching the Food City 500 NASCAR Winston Cup race. Hearn is not sure what he wants to do yet and is looking at different venues to race(Las Vegas Sun)(3-24-2000)
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