Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, November 12, 1995 TAG: 9511130094
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C14 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BOB ZELLER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: HAMPTON, GA. LENGTH: Medium
The news conferences in the media center started at 8 a.m. and kept going, one after another, through the early afternoon.
The biggest actual news of the day was a new primary sponsor, Remington Arms Co., for Butch Mock and his No. 75 Ford Thunderbird with new driver Morgan Shepherd. The team had been sponsored by Factory Stores of America.
Remington entered into a multi-year sponsorship agreement because ``this will be a way for us to reach millions of people we couldn't reach through traditional hunting, shooting and fishing media,'' said Bill Wohl, the company's media relations manager.
In other announcements:
Burger King announced a one-year extension with Joe Nemechek and his No. 87 Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
Ford, through Ford Quality Care and Ford Credit Leasing, formally announced the sponsorship of Robert Yates' new No. 88 Ford Thunderbird and driver Dale Jarrett.
Officials of Healthsource North Carolina, Inc., announced a three-year extension of their sponsorship of the TriStar Motorsports No. 19 Ford Thunderbird with driver Loy Allen.
Federal-Mogul, an automotive aftermarket parts supplier, announced an associate sponsorship of the Jasper Motorsports No. 77 Ford Thunderbird, which will be driven in today's race by Bobby Hillin.
Ferguson Enterprises, one of the nation's largest distributors of plumbing, heating and air conditioning equipment, announced an associate sponsorship with Richard Petty's No. 43 Pontiac Grand Prix, driven by Bobby Hamilton.
STEELE WINS ARCA RACE: Tim Steele led the final 32 laps of the ARCA 500 here Saturday and beat Joe Bessey to the finish line by .24 seconds, or several car lengths.
While Steele was winning his third straight ARCA race, Andy Hillenburg was cruising to a fifth-place finish to win his first ARCA championship.
The race was interrupted by 11 yellow flags, including one for a bad five-car crash that sent veteran Jimmy Horton to the hospital.
After hitting a spinning car, Horton was flipping down the backstretch when his car was hit in mid-roll by another car, which caused Horton's car to flip even more violently in the other direction a couple of times.
It looked grim, but Horton escaped with severe bruises and soreness and a chip fracture of his cervical spine that was reported as not a serious injury. Horton was taken to Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta for treatment.
BRETT AND JUNIOR: It's been a long, apparently difficult negotiation, but Brett Bodine is still talking to Junior Johnson about buying the No.11 Ford Thunderbird team.
``I think it's pretty much a done deal and I should know Monday,'' Johnson said.
``We're a lot closer than we were in the past,'' Bodine said. ``It's just not done yet. We're still working on it.''
SECOND-DAY WASHOUT: The second round of time trials for the Napa 500 Winston Cup race today was washed out by heavy morning rains that fell in the Atlanta area.
Provisional starting spots went to Todd Bodine, Kyle Petty, Robert Pressley and Steve Grissom. The only NASCAR regular who failed to make the race was Mike Wallace.
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