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Robby Gordon at California Speedway

Robby Gordon is at the California Speedway and will drive both WC and IROC this weekend. He says he will drive for SABCO for the rest of the year, at least. He will wear a special shield to protect his burns, which he still has a 3rd degree burn about the size of a...
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Rich Bickle update

I hear Rich Bickle's 1998 sponsor for the #17 DW owned Chevy will be a beverage company of some sort, but I don't know who. I also hear that Bickle will run the Brickyard 400 this year with KFC as the sponsor and possible a few other races in a second DW car to gear...
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Tim Brewer out as crew chief

Effective Immediately, Tim Brewer let go from the #4 Morgan McClure team as crew chief. Bob Larkins has been promoted to interim crew chief. Supposedly Marlin had no idea this was happening and didn't find out until Tuesday by fax that McClure and Brewer had decided...
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Lake Speed in the #9

Lake Speed will be driving the #9 Melling Ford at California Speedway this weekend, not Jeff Davis as reported earlier, no idea of sponsorship(6-17-97)...
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Chevy wants rules change

Many GM teams and the GM manufactures really want rules changes. I hear that in Pontiac's News and Quotes release on Sunday, every quote that mentioned needed rules changes was underlined. The Chevy equivalent also had quite a few negative NASCAR comments. It is doubtful...
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Musgrave says he’s staying with Roush

On the Lowe's chat series 6-16-97, Ted Musgrave said "Rumors are not valid. I'm staying with Roush and I'm very happy"(6-17-97)...
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Mike Wallace on thin ice?

I hear Mike Wallace is in jeopardy of losing the Spam ride. Not sure how true this is but I hear the team has to give back $30,000 every time they miss a race, yikes!(6-17-97)...
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Safety-Kleen adding the #24

I hear the #24 will pick up Safety-Kleen(a major fluid recycling company) as an associate sponsor. Many teams (#'s 3,4,8,10,17,21,22,23,41,43,75,77,94) carry their "We Care" stickers and now Gordon will also either at California or Daytona(not sure about the other ...
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Cars on the Chassis Dyno

NASCAR took the #94, #24 and the #3 and put them on Chassis Dyno after the race, no idea on the results. It was also rumored that NASCAR would be taking the cars to the GM or Ford Wind Tunnel for more tests(6-16-97)...
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Three new races in 1998?

Per the JournalNow: NASCAR may be announcing the 1998 WC schedule earlier than expected this summer, because car owners will need to brace their sponsors for another $500,000 increase in sponsorship fees(Jayski note: what is this? this should help the smaller team(...
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Nike sponsorship

I hear Nike will sponsor a Busch North car during either the July 12 or Sept 13 New Hampshire Busch North race. This is to test market some paint schemes for very little sponsorship money in preperation for Nike's full-time WC involvement in 1998(6-16-97)...
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McDonald’s scheme

I hear the special McDonald's car #94 will be all blue with the moon character on one side of the hood with the "M" on the other side of the hood. I hear the picture is on a box of Raisin Bran, I haven't seen it(6-16-97)...
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Earnhardt’s new scheme

TNN's Inside NASCAR showed the new paint scheme of the Dale Earnhardt #3 today and it is being run today at Michigan, the difference I see is a big red "Plus" in script on the hood and on the lower rear of the quarter panels. Not sure if this is permanent or just a...
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Bodine agrees to sell part of team

More JournalNow: Geoff Bodine has agreed to sell part of his financially hard-pressed team to an unnamed according to NASCAR sources. Bodine has talked with Julius Erving about such a deal, but it was unclear yesterday if Erving might be involved in Bodine's latest...
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Frosted Flakes scheme for Labonte

Terry Labonte will also run the Frosted Flakes paint scheme at California per Inside NASCAR(TNN) but ESPNs NASCAR2Day said it was just 6-15 at Michigan(6-15-97)...
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Marlin a possible replacement for Robby Gordon

Also if Robby Gordon isn't back next season driving for Felix Sabates, then Sterling Marlin is on Sabates' list of possible replacements, according to NASCAR sources(JournalNow)(6-15-97)...
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Bruton Smith makes an offer to buy ARCA

The Area Auto Racing News out of Trenton, NJ reports this week in Monte Dutton's Winston Cup Series News that Bruton Smith has made an offer to Ron Drager to buy ARCA but sources close to Drager say he does not want to sell. The rumor also says if Smith does buy that...
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Action and Terry Labonte…more

Another reason that Action has pulled all Terry Labonte cars is because Terry was one of the first drivers to join Kyle Petty's Hot Wheels collection(6-14-97)...
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More on the #3 scheme

I'm hearing the reported changes to the 3 car involve a paint scheme identical to the new Goodwrench drag team (Warren Johnson?) It is very similar except the logo is "Plus" and it is written in script not print(6-14-97)...
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More Robby Gordon reports

Two conflicting Robby reports:1) Supposedly Felix Sabates thinks Robby has already signed a deal to drive for Team Kool Green(CART) and that is why he is not being straight with Sabates. Felix's problem with this deal is he has already paid Robby upfront for the whole...