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Michael Waltrip Racing confident in sponsorship, could add fourth team in '09
By Bob Pockrass - Associate Editor
Sunday, September 21, 2008
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While many teams continue to search for sponsorship for the 2009 Sprint Cup season and beyond, one team that seems confident about sponsorship is Michael Waltrip Racing.
MWR Executive Vice President Cal Wells said Saturday that he believes the team has enough sponsorship for two cars and three-quarters of another. He said he could envision the team running a fourth car part time in 2009.
“I believe we’re in really good shape,” Wells said. “I’m hoping we’re actually going to run a fourth car. I don’t know that we can get it off, but we have so much in the pipeline.”
As far as who would be teammates with already signed Michael Waltrip and David Reutimann, Wells said the team hopes to re-sign Michael McDowell, who has run most of the season in a third car for MWR.
“We’re selling hard around McDowell,” Wells said. “We’ve got a lot of stuff we’re working on. I honestly don’t know. There’s some [more] talent out there.”
Wells also dismissed the idea that MWR would merge with another team.
“We’re looking at doing some service providing stuff with some folks that are trying to come in, kind of like the Hall of Fame [Racing] deals [with Joe Gibbs Racing],” Wells said. “We’re not to the point of announcing anything yet, but we’re looking for business. We’re not looking at [merging].”
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6 responses to "Michael Waltrip Racing confident in sponsorship, could add fourth team in '09". Post a Comment.
David Scanavino said:
Sep 21, 2008 at 12:30 PMWho in their right minds would want to be aligned with MWR?
Thomas Mikulski said:
Sep 21, 2008 at 3:45 PMI agree with David. They should concentrate on 1 or 2 teams first. I like Mikey, but he and Kyle Petty should retire and manage their teams and continue with tv duties.
Michael Knight said:
Sep 21, 2008 at 6:05 PMDid you guys watch the race today?? MWR is on the rise big time. I think you will see David Reutimann be in the top 15 next year.
Jay said:
Sep 21, 2008 at 6:25 PMWord was Reutimann had scored more points in the last 4 or 5 races than Jeff Gordon. Waltrip got his second top 10 today. They are coming around, give them time. Not sure McDowell is the guy, maybe Allmendinger
Anonymous said:
Sep 22, 2008 at 11:18 AMReutimann's team appears very strong lately. Plus the NAPA team was tenth yesterday. The whole organization seems to be solid. Don't forget this is only the second year of existance.
Pat Draper said:
Sep 22, 2008 at 2:40 PMYou people are always ready to put people down aren't you. Instead of saying something nice you right away get on your high horse and start bashing them. Mikie has done great this year i hope he does much better next year. I like both his drivers David and Micheal. Bringing AJ over there would be great. Mikie and all his people have a great attitude to bad more of our so called great drivers where like that. I look forward to "This Week In Nascar every monday night, except when chad is on. I like The Bif on the best. For a company to start out like Mikie did and do as good as he is now is great, i'm behind you all the way Mikie.