Tony Stewart to go Old School?
Despite my supposition the Ryan Newman and Tony Stewart satellite new conferences held today would shed some light on a second driver for the new Stewart-Haas Racing team - they didn’t and both drivers were playing coy with the subject - some related news did hit the wires.
Haas CNC Stewart-Haas Racing general manager Joe Custer has applied for the team to trademark the #14.
It’s expected the 14 will reside on the door of the 2009 “insert sponsor here _____” Chevy Impala SS for Stewart next year in addition to the team’s apparel and merchandise. (Rev-up those credit cards Smoke fans!)
As indicated by the picture the number fourteen has a long history in NASCAR lore starting with Fonty Flock who had 19 career NASCAR wins 14 of them, oddly enough, at the wheel of number fourteen.
Other “old school” drivers utilizing the number were the late Coo Coo Marlin.
His son Sterling Marlin used the number as late as 2007 when he drove for Ginn Racing. With the merger of Ginn Racing and DEI in July 2007 the #13 and #14 teams of Ginn were eliminated and presumably available for Stewart’s new team.
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