March 24, 1999
- Rusty Paint Scheme: Rusty Wallace and the #2 Miller Lite Ford team will have a special paint scheme at Texas, with the “True to Texas” on his #2 Ford on the side quarter-panels and the back TV panel. The car will also have a big star on each side, representing the “Lone Star State” of Texas(NOL)(3-24-1999)
- Atwood Five Race Cup Deal? UPDATE 3: Speedway Scene has learned that rising star Casey Atwood will announce a five race Cup deal for later this year. No details were available at the time of this posting on which five races will be included in the package, but expect an announcement soon, possibly this weekend(Speedway Scene) Jayski Note: I had reported a while back that Atwood signed a deal with Bill Eliiott, may have been just a testing deal, but possibly something related??(3-18-1999) — UPDATE 1: BGN driver Casey Atwood announced today he is not planning to enter any NASCAR Winston Cup Series events during the 1999 season. His current BGN team may look into running some Cup races in 2000, but nothing has been decided(Keystone Marketing)(3-19-1999) — UPDATE 2: Supposedly Atwood had been on the verge of signing a developmental contract with Richard Childress that would have included a five-race Cup deal. Under pressure from Castrol, his BGN sponsor, Atwood said all Cup plans were off for the remainder of this year(SpeedNet)(3-22-1999) — UPDATE 3: Atwood, Castrol and Brewco have a multiyear agreement, and plan to partner with a Cup team maybe for a few races in 2000, it basically hinges upon when Atwood is ready, right now and this year they will not be running in the Winston Cup series. Richard Childress has not offered a deal and by no means has Castrol put any pressure on anyone. As a group Brewco is not in as big a hurry as others would like for them to be. A press release to this effect was issued at Darlington on Friday(see UPDATE 1)(3-24-1999)
- Monte Carlo to Tunnel: Chevy engineers plan on putting their 2000 Monte Carlo through its paces in the Detroit wind tunnel today. The fate of the new Monte Carlo has been weighed by NASCAR officials for two months now, and its Indianapolis debut in August has been scratched. The new model is all but dead for any Winston Cup racing in 1999, because of the stalemate between NASCAR and GM executives, though some NASCAR teams are holding out slim hope they might get to run the model somewhere in the final month of the season. NASCAR officials were apparently not invited to this week’s wind tunnel tests(PitNow)(3-24-1999)
- Lake Speed Returns UPDATE: Midwest Transit Racing has NASCAR Winston Cup Series veteran Lake Speed as general manager. Speed will be responsible for all day to day operations of the #50 Midwest Transit Chevy race team. Speed, a former World Karting champion, has made 402 NASCAR Winston Cup Series starts as a driver. In 1988, driving a car he owned, Speed captured the TranSouth 500 at Darlington Raceway. In his last assignment, Speed was the driver and team manager at Melling Racing, a team that boasts 34 wins and the 1988 Winston Cup championship. Dan Pardus, who’s running for Raybestos Rookie of the Year honors as Midwest Transit Racing’s primary driver, said he was delighted with Speed’s selection(Midwest Transit PR)(3-23-1999) — UPDATE: The team will sit out and regroup the next few races and plan to return to Cup action at Talladega in April(3-24-1999)
- Ganassi to Cup? CART team owner Chip Ganassi, whose drivers have won the last three CART titles, says he’s still mulling an expansion into Winston Cup — perhaps by 2001, if not sooner(USA Today/Skip Wood)(3-24-1999)
- Martinsville Testing UPDATE: Elliott Sadler and the #21 CITGO Ford tested at Martinsville Monday and will test there again on Tuesday(WC Today Radio)(3-22-1999) — UPDATE: Sadler again tested Tuesday with Petty truck driver, Jimmy Hensley. The #21 team spent much time testing shock, no speeds(SpeedNet)(3-24-1999)
- #68 Withdraws: Premiere Motorsports announced Tuesday that it has withdrawn its #68 Ford entry for rookie driver Freddie Query for this weekend’s NASCAR Busch Grand National Series event at Fort Worth, Texas. The team will regroup and concentrate on the following short track events at Nashville and Bristol in April(The Premiere Group PR)(3-24-1999)
- Atwood to school: Casey Atwood, driver of the #27 Castrol Oil Chevy took his race car back to his old school, Overton High, in Tennessee on Tuesday for a Q&A session with some students. Atwood attended Overton through most of his junior year then completed his degree through home schooling so that he could adjust his classwork around his racing schedule(Tennessean)(3-24-1999)
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