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2nd Cingular Car? UPDATE:

2nd Cingular Car? UPDATE: hearing there will be a third car for Ganassi Racing at Sears Point with road course driver Dorsey Schroeder driving a 2nd Cingular Dodge UPDATE: Schroeder will drive the #01 Cingular Dodge usually wheeled by Jason Leffler, while Leffler will...

Ganassi Hire:

Ganassi Hire: Team owner Chip Ganassi announced that Bruce J. Mosley has joined Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates as vice president. Mosley will be responsible for overseeing all sales, marketing and communication functions for Chip Ganassi Racings two NASCAR...

Gordon Dominates at Dover:

Gordon Dominates at Dover: #24-Jeff Gordon won the MBNA 400 at Dover, leading 381 or 400 laps and breaking Mark Martins record of 379 (for a 400 miler) set in Sept 1998. The win is Gordon's 54th, which ties him for 7th on the all-time list with Rusty Wallace and Lee...

#01 Special Scheme UPDATE:

#01 Special Scheme UPDATE: hearing that Jason Leffler will be running a Special Olympics logo in June on the #01 Cingular Dodge. Cingular is a Special Olympics sponsor and it is part of this years promo(4-24-2001) UPDATE: see an image of the 'layout' of the car on ...

Sears Point Completes More Work – REPOST – UPDATE Testing this week:

Sears Point Completes More Work - REPOST - UPDATE Testing this week: Construction crews have completed work on the modified Chute and NASCAR Winston Cup drivers will get their first opportunity on the re-configured segment during a two-day test session, April 24-25...

#01 Special Scheme:

#01 Special Scheme: hearing that Jason Leffler will be running a Special Olympics logo in June on the #01 Cingular Dodge. Cingular is a Special Olympics sponsor and it is part of this years promo(4-24-2001)...

New #01 Crew Chief:

New #01 Crew Chief: Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Team Manager Andy Graves announced today that Matt Chambers will replace Kevin Cram as crew chief of the #01 Cingular Wireless Dodge Intrepid R/T. Chambers will assume the crew chief role immediately, and will...

Testing UPDATE:

Testing UPDATE: hearing quite a few Winston Cup teams are testing at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in SC this week. It is similar to Martinsville. Hear #8-Dale Earnahrdt Jr, #11-Brett Bodine and #14-Ron Hornaday are among the drivers testing. #40-Sterling Marlin will...

Testing at Martinsville UPDATE 3 Speeds:

Testing at Martinsville UPDATE 3 Speeds: A few teams will be testing at Martinsville Speedway in the new few weeks: March 20-21 #1-Steve Park, #24-Jeff Gordon, #6-Mark Martin, #97-Kurt Busch, #21-Elliott Sadler. and on March 27-28 #12-Jeremy Mayfield, #44-Buckshot...

Rookie of the Year:

Rookie of the Year: Richard Childress Racing has decided to enter Kevin Harvick in this season's Raybestos rookie of the year program in the Winston Cup series. Harvick, 25, missed the season-opening Daytona 500, but since the program doesn't count a rookie's worst...

Leffler also DNQ’d? UPDATE yes:

Leffler also DNQ'd? UPDATE yes: hearing from sources at the track that #01-Jason Leffler's 1st round speed will be thrown out as there is some irregularity found in the cars fuel system possibly an additive in the fuel UPDATE: Two days after the fact, NASCAR announced...

Bad Parts:

Bad Parts: NASCAR inspectors collected several unapproved parts from Winston Cup teams before the day's first practice on Friday. Four teams, those of #24-Jeff Gordon, #1-Steve Park, #80-Morgan Shepherd and #66-Todd Bodine, had unapproved check valves in their fuel...

Mast almost went to Childress:

Mast almost went to Childress: seems that Rick Mast came close to being Dale Earnhardt's teammate. "A multiple championship owner came to me and said he was thinking about starting a third team, and he was real strong about it. He asked if I would be interested.", ...

Testing at Talladega UPDATE:

Testing at Talladega UPDATE: hearing there will be testing at Talladega today and Thursday, Feb 1st. Three Cup teams (no idea who...yet), three BGN teams (no idea who...yet) and four CTS teams including #43 Carlos Contreras(1-31-2001) UPDATE: #44-Buckshot Jones was...

Gibbs Testing Driver:

Curtis Markham tested a Joe Gibbs Racing car during BGN testing the last two days at Daytona. However, Markham doesn't know if he will be in the car for the Feb. 17 NAPA 300. "Joe Gibbs gave me the opportunity to test, and we're doing all we can to get ready for the...

Leffler in the Indy 500?

Leffler in the Indy 500? Jason Leffler doubts he will run the Indy 500 this year as he wants to concentrate on his new #01 Ganassi Racing Winston Cup ride - per TNN's Raceday(1-21-2001) (1-20-2001)...

Leffler to Cup – #01 Driver…for 2002 UPDATE 4 – make that 2001:

BGN driver Jason Leffler confirmed Friday night that he will take over the driving duties of the #01 Dodges for Chip Ganassi Racing in the Winston Cup series beginning with the 2002 season. Leffler has agreed to a three-year deal, but will complete the 2001 BGN series...

#01 Driver…for 2002 UPDATE 7 Leffler is it:

#01 Driver...for 2002 UPDATE 7 Leffler is it: BGN driver Jason Leffler confirmed Friday night that he will take over the driving duties of the #01 Dodges for Chip Ganassi Racing in the Winston Cup series beginning with the 2002 season. Leffler has agreed to a three...

Talladega Testing:

Talladega Testing: Fourteen BGN teams were at Talladega this past Monday for a closed session to experiment with recent changes in cylinder heads and engine compression ratio. The teams got about a 1-hour late start on the session, then drove through the rapidly plunging...

Gibbs Info UPDATE:

Gibbs Info UPDATE: Doug Richert has been placed in a team manager role for both Gibbs BGN teams(#4 and #18) in addition to his crew chief role for Jeff Purvis on the #4. Richert is also looking to hire a shock specialists and a data aquisition engineer for the organization...