Everyone loves an underdog. It’s true of virtually all sports, especially when that underdog makes good and wins. Sometimes that win takes a bit of time though.

I noticed this story from the Kennebec Journal, written by Travis Barrett, about driver Travis Adams. In 2005 he qualified for his only career start at the time, and finished 40th in a race of 40. Not the most auspicious start. Definitely the underdog going forward.

But now Adams has rallied and risen to the point of being the favorite at the TD Banknorth 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway. You just have to love that. From a 40th place position to 5 wins this season and favorite consideration. That’s inspiring.

Wiscasset Raceway Late Model rookie Dan Trask must be paying attention to this story. Who knows, maybe he will be the new underdog that makes good. That makes good racing, and if feels good too.

Submitted from NASCAR Ranting and Raving Blog

About a year ago I talked about DEI possibly buying out MB2, which didn’t happen. MB2 was later bought by land developer Bobby Ginn. Now it looks like that the new team of Bobby Ginn Racing is going to merge with DEI.

Looks like Theresa is going places. She just inks an engine development deal with RCR to share their engine technologies and build a better motor, and now it looks like she is going to ‘merge’ somehow with Bobby Ginn Racing. If this is true then she is finally going to get that former MB2 team that she ‘almost’ purchased last year.

But the changes don’t stop there, check this out:

- Stirling Marlin and Joe Nemechek are kicked out of their rides - some hard feelings there, that’s for sure. The 14 car will continue on with Regan Smith driving it, while Mark Martin continues to drive the 01 Army car and the future of the 13 car is up in the air - especially without a solid sponsor to flip the bill. My guess is, we won’t see the 13 car again for a while.

- Ginn closed down their Busch program, laying off 30 or so people at BGR.

- Aric Almirola has now left JGR and joined BGR, although he will race the remaining 5 races with JGR. Aric will really take Ragan’s place and play second fiddle to Mark Martin in the 01 car.

With all of this merging going on, 3 of the top 5 GM teams, anchored by DEI, will have ties with each other somehow and with rumours of JGR going with Toyota next year that means all of the top GM teams, except Hendrick, will have some sort of alliance. But wait, here is where it gets interesting, doesn’t BGR get their engines from Hendrick already? I wonder if they would still get their motors from Hendrick once the merge takes place. My speculation is probably not, as they would get their motors from the new combined engine house of DEI and RCR. I don’t think Rick Hendrick would lease motors to a team that essentially run by DEI.

It will be interesting to watch this story develop over the next few days. If Dale Jr doesn’t have a sponsorship announcement, or Kyle Busch doesn’t make a team announcement, this story will be the big thing during the mid-season vacation for the Cup drivers.

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