Tony Roper News

Roper to CTS UPDATE:

Roper to CTS UPDATE:

July 19, 2000
Tony Roper, who started the season out in the #50 WEM/DR Pepper BGN ride before that team folded, announced that he will be running several races in the CTS later this year for Mike Mittler's #26 team. Plans are for Roper to debut at IRP on August 3. Other races include

Some Rumored Driver changes:

Some Rumored Driver changes:

July 13, 2000
hearing Jamie McMurray will take over the #41 TKO Motorsports ride effective immediately. Randy Renfo has supposedly been released. Tony Roper will drive McMurray's old ride, the #26 truck in a few events, no idea if the #26 will try to run the full season or not(7

Roper to CTS:

Roper to CTS:

July 13, 2000
Roper to CTS: Tony Roper, who started the season out in the #50 WEM/DR Pepper BGN ride before that team folded, announced that he will be running several races in the CTS later this year for Mike Mittler's #26 team. Plans are for Roper to debut at IRP on August 3.

Roper Tests the #0:

Roper Tests the #0:

June 28, 2000
Roper Tests the #0: hearing that Tony Roper tested for the #0 Ohio State team at Greenville Pickens Speedway Tuesday. The Ohio state team has struggled this year making only five of the BGN races this season, three of those with Lance Hooper, including an outside pole

#50 Troubles? UPDATE 3:

#50 Troubles? UPDATE 3:

June 27, 2000
#50 Troubles? UPDATE 3: The #50 Dr Pepper/Washington-Irving Motorsports(WEM) team didn't attend Dover for the race. Hearing that WEM didn't make it's payroll last week and the crew was sent home. This team could cease to exist soon(6-3-2000) UPDATE: the Tony Roper

#50 News:

#50 News:

June 1, 2000
#50 News: hearing the #50 Dr Pepper team and driver Tony Roper will not run at Dover this weekend(6-1-2000)

Hoff News:

Hoff News:

June 1, 2000
Hoff News: Bill Hoff, of Langhorne, PA, will carry Snyder's of Hanover sponsorship on his WMMR-FM #93 Chevy for three area Busch Grand National races: Saturday at Dover, July 16 at Nazareth and Sept. 23 at Dover. Snyder's bakery is an associate sponsor on the #50-Dr

#50 News:

#50 News:

May 28, 2000
#50 News: Tony Roper will be back in the #50 next week and for the remainder of the year. Stanton Barrett practiced and made a qualifying attempt in the #50 car at Charlotte, but supposedly it was only a temporary change(BGN Racing Site)(5-28-2000)

RIR Testing UPDATE:

RIR Testing UPDATE:

April 20, 2000
Testing at RIR - Richmond International Raceway was rained out today. Some team supposedly there were #36-Kenny Schrader, #90-Ed Berrier, #91-Todd Bodine, #16-Kevin Lepage, #22-Ward Burton and #93-Dave Blaney. Teams are expected to return Wednesday. No new on if #60

RIR Testing UPDATE 3:

RIR Testing UPDATE 3:

April 20, 2000
RIR Testing UPDATE 3: Testing at RIR “ Richmond International Raceway was rained out today. BGN teams were there to test: #24-David Green(yes, helping out), #18-Jason Leffler, #21-Mike Dillon, #2-Kevin Harvick, #45-Adam Petty and #98-Elton Sawyer(4-18-2000) UPDATE:

Texas Testing:

Texas Testing:

March 21, 2000
Texas Testing: Testing at Texas Motor Speedway Monday and Tuesday are #15-Jack Sprague; #18-Jason Leffler; #50-Tony Roper and Rich Bickle in the #91 Popeye's Pontiac(TMS Site)(3-21-2000)

Roper and the #55 CTS UPDATE:

Roper and the #55 CTS UPDATE:

October 6, 1999
Tony Roper will be running the #55 Icehouse Ford in the CTS at Louisville next week and may possibly another(Tony Roper Site)(10-1-1999) - UPDATE: Ron Barfield has been released as the driver of the #55 Icehouse Beer Ford F150 campaigned on the Craftsman Truck Series

Roper Leaves UPDATE:

Roper Leaves UPDATE:

August 31, 1999
Tony Roper will no longer be driving the #61 IWX Motor Freight Pontiac in the BGN. Roper had three top-10 finishes this season in 16 starts with the Xpress team. Prior to joining Xpress, Roper competed for two seasons in the CTS Series gaining 8 top-10 finishes. Roper

Testing:

Testing:

July 6, 1999
I hear Tony Roper and the #61 BGN team will testing at Myrtle Beach on Tuesday and Wednesday, the #35 team testing on Wednesday to Friday with Elliott Sadler doing the testing on Wednesday and Lyndon Amick testing on Thursday and Friday(7-6-1999)

Drivers at the Glen:

Drivers at the Glen:

June 24, 1999
In addition to the seven Busch North Series drivers already entered in the Busch Series event at The Glen, three more drivers have filed late entries for the race. Those drivers are J.D. Gibbs, Eric Bodine (cousin of Power Team's Geoffrey Bodine) and Canadian Jason