It’s rumored that Jeremy
Mayfield will be driving for Bill Davis Racing next season, but since his early termination from Evernham Motorsports he is
looking for something to do until then. Whether it was Mayfield talking about contractual issues or publicly “trash
talking” the boss, it got him his walking papers.
In steps the courts for reasons
I cannot figure out. If a team fires you, they don’t want you around anymore. Why would you want to be around a team
that does not want you around? Mayfield has his reasons for involving the courts and I am sure they were monetary.
So now the rumor mill involves
Robert Yates, and his No. 38 M&M’s Ford. Current driver Elliott Sadler has pretty much signed to drive the No. 19
Dodge Dealers Dodge (you know the one that Mayfield was fired from) next season. With Mayfield out it’s only logical
and sensible for them to get started on next year season since this one is a bust.
Yates needs a driver; two drivers
to be frank but lets just worry about the No. 38. The driver that has been rumored
to be taking over the No. 38 team is David Gilliland, a one race wonder in the Busch Series (he won at Kentucky earlier this
year).
But Yates and Gilliland want
to keep his rookie status in tact for 2007, and with 14 races left in the season that cannot be done unless he finds someone
to fill in.
Now that’s where Jeremy
Mayfield comes back in to the picture. Mayfield may get to drive the No. 38 Ford
the rest of the season, however if Mayfield is not going to drive for Yates next year, I would not think Yates/Roush engine
program and the engineering program at Ford would allow him to know to much about their program as he plans to leave to go
drive for the so called “evil empire” that is Toyota in 2007.
Silly season seems to start
earlier and earlier each year and I think this year will go down as the wildest.
2006 StockCar Review.
