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Kevin Harvick poses for a photo with the No. 29 Shell Chevrolet, which will debut in 2007. (Photo Credit: Todd Warshaw/Getty Images ยป More Photos
NEW COLORS Richard Childress Racing has signed Shell as a primary sponsor for the No. 29 NASCAR Nextel Cup Chevrolet Monte Carlo driven by Kevin Harvick. Shell will replace GM Goodwrench as the primary sponsor on the No. 29, although the company will remain as an associate sponsor of the team. Car owner Richard Childress said that the team will rotate paint schemes among Shell, its Pennzoil affiliate and Reese's next season, with GM Goodwrench making an appearance or two as well. Specific races for each scheme are still to be worked out, Childress said;. Goodwrench, or course, was RCR's primary sponsor during the glory years of the late Dale Earnhardt and the black No. 3 Chevrolet. Asked if thought the change of sponsors signaled the end of the team's last tie to Earnhardt, Childress said it did not. "I don't think it is breaking the last link to Dale Earnhardt," said Childress. "That will be around for many, many years to come, way past when I and a lot of us are around. It's just that times change, the sport changes, business changes, there are decisions that have to be made that we have to move forward in life with. I think John F. Kennedy said it the best that you have to look at change as opportunity, and that is how we all have to look at this as. I think with the legacy of Dale, the No. 3 car and Goodwrench will live on for many, many years to come."
HINDSIGHT IS 20-20 Dale Jarrett, who in the spring announced he would be leaving Robert Yates Racing in 2007 for a seat in one of Michael Waltrip's new Toyota Camrys, said Saturday that he was shocked at how quickly he got cut out of the loop at Robert Yates Racing. "When we signed up for 2006 (with Yates), that's what we signed up for," Jarrett said. "We didn't even know if we'd be around in 2007, so why should anything be different because you announced you were going to make a change? But things have changed. And I understand when you get to a certain point, that, yeah, when you get to this point in the season, that they're working on things for the future and I'm not going to be at Yates and be a part of that. If there's things they'd rather me not know, I'm OK with that. I understand that. But we've kind of raced the same three cars forever and never built anything new. I don't know why we would do that and back off. We all signed on for 2006 and that's what we should do. It is a more difficult thing than I envisioned."
Dale Jarrett has found RYR a less comfortable environment of late. (Photo: Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images) ยป More Photos
WORKING FOR A LIVING Jeff Gordon should pass the $80 million mark in career earnings on Sunday, a truly staggering sum by any measure. And the four-time NASCAR Nextel Champion realizes just how good his fortune has been. "Honestly, I never dreamed I'd be racing and making the living I make," Gordon said prior to qualifying for the UAW-Ford 500. "I've had opportunities I've never imagined. And one thing has not changed for me. I'm no different in that I still want the trophy. It's not the paycheck at the end of the day. I think that's why I've been able to stay in it and enjoy it as long as I have." Gordon qualified fourth for Sunday's race, which should bode well for his hopes
JUNIOR UNCERTAIN Dale Earnhardt, Jr., the second-most successful driver in Talladega Superspeedway history, said the combination of new asphalt and smaller restrictor plates have him undecided about what to expect in Sunday's UAW-Ford 500. "I am very at odds as to what my opinion is about what is going to happen in the race," said Earnhardt, who trails only his late father in victories here. "What line is going to work, what passing is going to be like, what the draft is going to be like, whether it is going to be two-wide often, single-file often, or three-wide most often. It depends on a lot of different scenarios and I don't have any answers for myself or anybody else right now."
PETTY MAKES FIELD Petty Enterprises competition boss Robbie Loomis was nervous about NASCAR's mandated restrictor-plate change Saturday morning, as Kyle Petty had to make the race on speed as he is outside the top 35 in owner's points. But Petty ran an excellent lap, qualifying 18th, which was best of the go-or-go-home cars. "I'm ecstatic with that lap," Petty said. "Obviously we were a little bit concerned because you don't know what anybody ran in practice. Everybody was doing race practice and only 15 of 20 of us were trying to make the race. When the No. 10 car (the Evernham Motorsports Dodge of Scott Riggs) went and didn't run as fast as I thought he would, that was even more cause for concern. The guys worked hard. Drivers don't mean anything down here when it comes to qualifying. It's all about the team and engines. The Evernham engines were great, and our guys did a great job. The plate change may have thrown the engine guys for a loop a little bit, but as far as we go it didn't change anything we were doing. We just had to go off what they said."
WELLS: I'LL BE BACK Cal Wells, owner of the single-car PPI Motorsports team, said Saturday that he intends to continue fielding a NASCAR Nextel Cup team in 2007 and is close to wrapping up a sponsor package for next season. "Eighty percent of it is in focus, 20 percent of it is not, which is why we haven't made any announcements yet," Wells said Saturday morning at Talladega Superspeedway. "I fully expect we'll be racing and I'm excited about what we have coming up." Unfortunately for Wells, his driver Travis Kvapil missed the race by a single position.
TRIPLE PLAY Hoping that multi-tasking will give him an advantage on the brand new racing surface at Talladega Superspeedway, veteran driver Mike Wallace will run all three races this Oct. 6-8 weekend. Wallace finished sixth in the ARCA RE/MAX Food World 250 and is driving the No. 15 Chevrolet for Billy Ballew Motorsports in the inaugural John Deere 250 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race today. On Sunday, he'll be behind the wheel of the No. 09 Ford Taurus for team owner James Finch. Wallace is the only driver participating in all three races. "I'm the only one who seems to be doing it. I was here, and (team owner) James (Finch) called and said, 'How about driving it?' And I went, 'OK, deal,'" Wallace said.
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