Rick Mast News

#7 Change? UPDATE:

#7 Change? UPDATE:

May 29, 2001
#7 Change? UPDATE: The Sporting News Inside Dish reports - Another driver change possibly in the works: Rick Mast replacing Mike Wallace in the #7 car.(Sporting News), Mast currently drives the #50 Blair.com/Midwest Transit Chevy(5-29-2001) UPDATE: hearing that Rick

Testing At Lowes UPDATE:

Testing At Lowes UPDATE:

May 8, 2001
Testing At Lowes UPDATE: Lowes Motor Speedway will host many drivers in a test session on Monday May 7th and Tuesday, May 8th. Cup schedule on both days run from 4:00 to 10:00pm/et. Sceduled drivers so far are: #88-Dale Jarrett, #9-Bill Elliott, #22-Ward Burton, #19

UPDATE 5:

UPDATE 5:

March 24, 2001
UPDATE 5: ESPN2's RPM 2Night reports that Rick Mast has talked to #4 Owner Larry McClure about driving the Kodak Chevy(3-24-2001) UPDATE - $4 million? the price tag for Robby Gordon's release? According to one source of the Winston Salem Journal, it was $4 million,

Cup teams test at Kentucky UPDATE 3:

Cup teams test at Kentucky UPDATE 3:

March 23, 2001
Cup teams test at Kentucky UPDATE 3: #32-Ricky Craven and #96-Andy Houston are testing PPI Motorpsorts Fords at Kentucky Speedway, Tuesday March 20th and Wednesday March 21st. #19-Casey Atwood will test his Dodge on Wednesday(Kentucky Speedway PR)(3-19-2001) UPDATE

Gordon Gone? UPDATE 6 NO, it’s Gordon!:

Gordon Gone? UPDATE 6 NO, it’s Gordon!:

March 17, 2001
Gordon Gone? UPDATE 6 NO, it's Gordon!: hearing Robby Gordon and the #4 Morgan McClure Kodak team have parted ways effective immediatedly, no word on who will drive the car at Darlington. Rick Mast? Loy Allen? Wally Dallenbach? Morgan Shepherd? Kevin Lepage? UPDATE

#50 Sponsor UPDATE:

#50 Sponsor UPDATE:

March 16, 2001
#50 Sponsor UPDATE: Blair Corporation, a national catalog and direct mail marketer of women's and men's apparel and home products, today announced that its e-commerce website, Blair.com, has agreed to a sponsorship role with the #50 Midwest Transit Racing Chevrolet

Donleavy/Hill Bros drop case:

Donleavy/Hill Bros drop case:

March 9, 2001
Donleavy/Hill Bros drop case: Winston Cup team [#90] owner Junie Donlavey and Hills Brothers Coffee have called off legal action against one another. Donlavey verbally sparred with the company after it announced last fall it would leave his team. Donlavey replaced

3rd RCR team UPDATE:

3rd RCR team UPDATE:

March 6, 2001
3rd RCR team UPDATE: Richard Childress just inked a deal with AOL-TimeWarner(the #30 Chevy, Harvick was to drive it), which, with Dale Earnhardt's death, suddenly needs sorting out. Rick Mast, whose current team(#50 Team) has missed two races, is under consideration

Missing Graphics:

Missing Graphics:

February 15, 2001
Missing Graphics: Fox Sports wasn't able to fulfill its pledge to show sponsor logos for all cars in today's Daytona Twin 125-mile qualifying races. For five cars, the decision was understandable: those teams did not have a primary sponsor. But Fox said it wasn't able

Mast almost went to Childress:

Mast almost went to Childress:

February 3, 2001
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.",

Robinson to run Cup at Talladega in Oct UPDATE:

Robinson to run Cup at Talladega in Oct UPDATE:

February 1, 2001
Robinson to run Cup at Talladega in Oct UPDATE: When Shawna Robinson returns for "White Knuckle Weekend" in October at Talladega, she'll leave the ARCA car at home and bring her Michael Kranefuss-owned NASCAR Winston Cup Series Ford Taurus instead. The second half

Las Vegas Testing – Day 2:

Las Vegas Testing – Day 2:

January 31, 2001
For the second consecutive day, #50-Greg Biffle paced a field of BGN drivers who were preparing for the Sam's Town 300 on March 3rd. Biffle turned a lap of 166.359mph, which was faster than #74-Chad Little's 165.299mph. There were 11 NASCAR Busch Series teams who participated

#50 Sponsor News:

#50 Sponsor News:

January 29, 2001
#50 Sponsor News: International Brands, parent company of internet retail supersite WorldBestBuy.com (www.worldbestbuy.com) has extended its associate sponsorship of the #50 Midwest Transit Racing team for the 2001 and 2002 NASCAR Winston Cup seasons. Midwest Transit

Mast to the #50? UPDATE 3:

Mast to the #50? UPDATE 3:

January 25, 2001
Mast to the #50? UPDATE 3: hearing Rick Mast is talking to the #50 MidWest Transit team about driving for them in 2001 as Ricky Craven has left the team (to go to the #32 Tide ride). Other possibilites include Hut Stricklin and Kevin Lepage UPDATE: Rick Mast looms

Mast to test the #50 but:

Mast to test the #50 but:

January 11, 2001
Mast to test the #50 but: Rick Mast will be testing the #50 Midwest Transit #50 in Thursday and Friday's GM test at DIS. BUT Mast still remains unsigned for the up coming season... at this time. The #50 team will be using Claude Queen motors during this session, Rick