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Danica Patrick, it now appears, is giving up on any NASCAR venture next season and will likely stay in Indy-car racing, moving to the Andretti-Green team. In fact, there are reports that last weekend's well-exploited public-relations blurb at NASCAR's Chicago stop was merely to put pressure on Indy's Tony George to come up with a deal to keep Patrick in George's Indy Racing League series.
  -- Winston-Salem Journal

Might NASCAR expand the current 43-car fields to keep high-dollar sponsors happy? Robin Pemberton, NASCAR's vice president for competition, said no: "Nobody's even brought it up. And we're already maxed out on pit road with 43 pits."
  -- Winston-Salem Journal

Juan Pablo Montoya will have the points-exemption earned by the current Casey Mears-Chip Ganassi team for only next year's first five races, then Montoya will have to make the fields on his own.
  -- Winston-Salem Journal

John Darby, Nextel Cup series director, says officials are in the final stage of approving the Toyota Camry for next season. Also, Dodge submitted a car for next season with a new hood and rear. Darby said the car is scheduled to be taken to a wind tunnel Tuesday.
  -- Roanoke Times

Not much info on this, but hearing that Wayne Burdette and a business partner are looking at coming back into Nextel Cup racing either on their own or partnering with a current team. They are currently working with several sponsors and hope to announce something soon. Burdette partnered with Cale Yarborough in 1998 and part if 1999 with Rick Mast as the driver.
  -- jayski.com

NASCAR is riding to the rescue of the Staten Island Little League, after venerable Hy Turkin Field was torn up from home plate to the outfield in a sickening episode of vehicular vandalism earlier this week. Michael Printup of International Speedway Corp., which seeks to build an 80,000-seat racetrack in Bloomfield, arranged a corporate donation of 500 square feet of sod and some 18 cubic yards of clean fill to make the Dongan Hills field playable again.
  -- Staten Island Advance

Considering the state of stock-car racing today, with NASCAR everywhere and short tracks struggling, the Miller Lite Slinger Nationals aren't as important an event as they were at their peak. But don't dare tell Dick Trickle the Nationals are no big deal. Or Matt Kenseth. Others who've participated over time include Daytona 500 winners Ernie Irvan, Dale Jarrett, Sterling Marlin and Michael Waltrip, since-retired Harry Gant and Rusty Wallace, Kyle Petty and the late Neil Bonnett.
  -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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