Rumors
Hermie Sadler will be driving the No. 48 Chevrolet for Fast Track Racing/Andy Hillenburg at Martinsville Speedway on March 28th. The teams still needs a primary sponsor, but does have Arcedale Vending on board as a associate sponsor.
Dennis Setzer and MRD Motorsports will team up again at Martinsville in the No. 8 Chevrolet, they also are still looking for sponsorship to add more races.
Kyle Busch and ownership looks like it's on hold. He needs to get a better business model going with his late model team first.
So he doesn't spend the sponsorship money too fast and then use his own money to pay the bills. Plus at 23, he wants to save for his retirement first.
Billy Ballew who owes a two truck team in the CWTS, one is the 51 that Rowdy races part-time. Was arrested Wednesday night, on Atlanta Motor Speedway property for DUI and had a mixed drink in his car's cup holder.
Not sure on the Georgia laws, but have read on several blogs. That since he was on private property and not public, the case most likely will get thrown out in court. Sad to see, hopefully regardless the outcome that he get the help he needs and learns from his mistake.
Chase Austin and Trail Motorsports took the Atlanta race off and may also sit out the Martinsville race. The team had two decent outings with Austin, 13th at Daytona and 21st at Fontana.
The Trail team had leased MRD Motorsports equipment for those two races and apparently don't have a long-term deal with Austin.
Current lawyers are working on finalizing Austin's full-time contract, hopefully with the Truck Series off the next two weeks they get this done.
Also the team is leasing the former Robert Yates racing and Petty Enterprises Race shop. They are moving in and want to concentrate that they ensure they have build a better platform for both Austin and their race team to run out of.
Hope they get this deal done, Austin is to good of a driver not to race in NASCAR and ashamed if it falls thru.
Chris Jones and Copy Wizard Racing will race 10 to 15 races this season in Trucks and with a sponsors help would add more races.
Gabi DiCarlo may or may not be racing at Kansas, sh'e not sure now. Since Martinsville was to be her debut, but upon NASCAR's approval to run larger tracks. She made her debut at Fontana and also Atlanta.
Todd Bodine and Germain Racing have announced they won't race at Martinsville without having a sponsor on board the No. 30.
At Atlanta they had Tilted Kilt on board, for a one race deal and will know later in the week if they will become a full-time sponsor for the rest of the season.
I delayed posting a day, thinking maybe Wednesday they'll announce if they have a deal and no news is bad news.
T.J. Bell Jr. and Red Horse Racing
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