Dover "News" and Notes

Ricky Rudd qualified the Home Depot Chevy 10th for Sunday's race, but the car will drop to the back of the field once Tony Stewart starts the race (only to be replaced by Rudd soon after). To preserve their starting spot, Rudd has been instructed to mimic Stewart at all times, including not shaving, refusing to sign autographs, and aquiring a monkey. No one will be the wiser...NO ONE!!!

Derrike Cope will start Sunday's race, after being unable to sell his ride this week. All Chad Chaffin could offer him was seventeen dollars and a hell of a nice watch.*

J.J. Yeley's Joe Gibbs Racing Chevy will feature Imitrex on the hood this weekend. Imitrex is a medicine designed for migraine headaches. Joe Gibbs knows all about headaches--he works for Dan Snyder.

After the success of Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s "Black Car" at Talladega, honoring his father, he will be running a "Cream Car" at Michigan, honoring his grandfather. Later this year (reportedly at New Hampshire), Junior will run a "Mud Car", honoring his distant predecessor, Caveman Og Earnhardt.

ODDS
2:1 Delaware institution Sambo's will be referenced on air.
10:1 Delaware institution Grotto's Pizza will be referenced on air.
500:1 Institutionalized Delawarian Mike Mackler will be referenced on air.


*If you get this joke, you're alright by me.