Dick Trickle News

Schneider Gone from the #5:

Schneider Gone from the #5:

November 9, 2000
Schneider Gone from the #5: Schneider National, Inc. announced it will end its sponsorship in NASCAR's Busch Series beginning with the 2001 season. Dick Trickle has been driving the familiar orange Schneider Trucking car for the past three years, the last two with

Trickle Looking:

Trickle Looking:

November 9, 2000
Dick Trickle will leave Jimmy Spencer's #5 BGN team at the end of the season and is seeking a new ride for 2001. Trickle said he is exploring rides in both the BGN and CUP Series for 2001. Schneider National, who had been Trickles sponsor for the last three years,

Talladega Testing:

Talladega Testing:

October 4, 2000
#24-Gordon was at Talladega Superspeedway Tuesday concluding a two-day test session with his Hendrick Motorsports #24 DuPont Chevy team. The Ultra Motorsports' #7 Nations Rent Chevy with Mike Wallace and the Bessey Motorsports' #60 Power Team Chevy wi th Dick Trickle

Talladega Testing:

Talladega Testing:

October 3, 2000
NASCAR's announcement of rule changes at Talladega Superspeedway means more testing time for some Winston Cup Series teams. On Monday, a few Winston Cup teams took advantage of cooler temperatures and blue skies as the 32nd running of the Winston 500 gets closer. Mike

Trickle to run the #60 at Lowes:

Trickle to run the #60 at Lowes:

October 3, 2000
Dick Trickle will drive the #60 Power Team Chevy for Bessey Motorsports this weekend in the Cup race at Lowes Motor Speedway. Trickle made three starts in the #60 Chevy earlier in the 2000 season driving the car in the spring events at Texas, Talladega and California

Spencer Team Changes:

Spencer Team Changes:

July 11, 2000
Spencer Team Changes: Jimmy Spencer announced that he has restructured his BGN operation, Spencer Motor Ventures, that fields the #5 Schneider National Chevy with driver Dick Trickle and the #12 Zippo Chevy. They also field a CTS Truck along with Winston Cup and Busch

Said to run for Spencer at Sears Point:

Said to run for Spencer at Sears Point:

June 20, 2000
Jimmy Spencer goes to Sears Point Raceway this weekend not only as the driver of the #26 Big K-Mart Ford Taurus, but he also makes his debut as a NASCAR Winston Cup car owner. Spencer has entered his #23 Federated Auto Parts Ford Taurus in the Save Mart/Kragen 350K

Trickle to drive #60? UPDATE yep:

Trickle to drive #60? UPDATE yep:

April 24, 2000
hearing Dick Trickle will drive the #60 Power Team Chevy, giving Geoffrey Bodine another week to heal from the injuries he incurred at Daytona in February in the CTS crash UPDATE: Bessey Motorsports has announced that Dick Trickle will drive the #60 Power Team Chevrolet

Trickle and LaJoie OK:

Trickle and LaJoie OK:

April 17, 2000
Dick Trickle will drive the #60 Power Team Chevy in the Cup race at Talladega after a hard wreck in Saturday's BGN race there. Trickle suffered a bruised foot when he was hit on the driver's side by Randy LaJoie. LaJoie was temporarily knocked unconscious, regained

Bessey 2nd team tests and Talladega driver UPDATE 3:

Bessey 2nd team tests and Talladega driver UPDATE 3:

April 11, 2000
#60 Power Team owner Joe Bessey, tested a #61 Power Team Chevy at Daytona on Monday in anticipation of launching a second team later this summer, possibly for the Pepsi 400 at Daytona. Bessey participated in the first day of a two-day test along with #6-Mark Martin

Mast to the #14? UPDATE confirmed:

Mast to the #14? UPDATE confirmed:

March 28, 2000
the Dick Trickle Fanclub Site is reporting that the #14 team has signed Rick Mast to compete for the remainder of the 2000 season(3-27-2000) UPDATE: As rumored for a week or two, Rick Mast will go from Larry Hedrick's #41 Chevy to A.J. Foyt's #14. Mast will take the

Trickle to drive for Power Team UPDATE confirmed:

Trickle to drive for Power Team UPDATE confirmed:

March 28, 2000
Dick Trickle was contacted by Joe Bessey owner of the #60 Power Team to take over the driver's seat at Texas. The #60 Power Team hopes Dick can help them in their qualifying efforts. They've had to use all but one of their remaining provisionals thus far this season

Bliss News/Foyt Driver UPDATE Bliss in Fuller Out:

Bliss News/Foyt Driver UPDATE Bliss in Fuller Out:

March 27, 2000
SpeedVision reports that Dick Trickle apparently will drive AJ Foyt's #14 Conseco Pontiac at Texas. The team is looking at candidates for the ride. Looks like Mike Bliss, who started the year in the Foyt cars, will not return. Meanwhile, talk bubbled that Bliss could

Foyt Driver:

Foyt Driver:

March 27, 2000
SpeedVision reports that Dick Trickle apparently will drive AJ Foyt's #14 Conseco Pontiac at Texas. The team is looking at candidates for the ride. Looks like Mike Bliss, who started the year in the Foyt cars, will not return. Meanwhile, talk bubbled that Bliss could

more Talladega Testing:

more Talladega Testing:

February 4, 2000
testing Winston Cup cars at Talladega on Thursday were #26-Jimmy Spencer, #2-Rusty Wallace, #11-Brett Bodine, #41-Rick Mast and #96-Greg Sacks. Busch Series drivers #10-Jeff Green, #4-Jeff Purvis, #1-Randy LaJoie, #5-Dick Trickle, #57-Jason Keller, #17-Jason Schuler