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Some of the cars were not listed (ie Gordon, Martin etc.).  I think
this is because there wasnt any reported changes from last season.  The
title of the article was NASCAR Teams of 96 Who's going where.

Car#  Make     Driver         Sponsor         Comments
  1   Pontiac  Rick Mast      Skoal Classic   Switch in Make
  2   Ford     Rusty Wallace  Miller Lite     Switch in Sponsor
  3*  Chevy    Dale Earnhardt GM Goodwrench   Switch in Personnel
  5   Chevy    Terry Labonte  Kelloggs        Renewed contract
  8   Ford     Hut Sticklin   None listed     Switch in Driver/Sponsor
  9   Ford     Lake Speed     Spam            Switch in Personnel
 10   Ford     Ricky Rudd     Tide            Switch in Personnel
 11*  Ford     Brett Bodine   Lowe's          Switch in Owner/Personnel
 18   Chevy    Bobby Labonte  Interstate Batt New contracts
 19   Ford     Loy Allen      Heathsource     Switch in Personnel
 21*  Ford     Michael Waltrip CITGO          Switch in Driver
 22   Pontiac  Ward Burton    MBNA            First full season
 23   Ford     Jimmy Spencer  Camel CigarettesSwitch in Engine Supply
 25   Chevy    Ken Schrader   Budweiser       Switch in Personnel
 26   Ford     None           Quaker State    Team disbanded
 27*  Ford     Elton Sawyer   None listed     Switch in Owner
 28   Ford     Ernie Irvin    Texaco/Havoline Switch in Driver/Personne
 29   Chevy    Steve Grissom  Catroon Network Switch in Sponsor/Personn
 30*  Pontiac  Johnny Benson  Pennzoil        Switch in Driver
 33   Chevy    Robert Pressley Skoal Bandit   Switch in Personnel
 41*  Chevy    Ricky Craven   Kodiak          Switch in Owner
 42   Pontiac  Kyle Petty     Coors Light     Switch in Personnel
 43*  Pontiac  Bobby Hamilton STP             Added assoc sponsor
 75*  Ford     Morgan Shepherd Remington Arms Switch in Driver/Sponsor
 77   Ford     Bobby Hillin   Jasper Engines  Switch in Owner/Personnel
 87   Chevy    Joe Nemechek   Burger King     Switch in Personnel
 88   Ford     Dale Jarrett   Quality Care    Switch in Driver/Sponsor
 97*  Pontiac  Chad Little    John Deere      Switch in Make/Sponsor
 98   Ford     Jeff Burton    Exide Batt      New Team

No sponsor was announced for the #7 at this time and I hear its Dr.
Pepper but chose not to list it because I haven't seen it confirmed
yet.

* section

 #3 car:  May field a second team for SuperTruck Champion Mike Skinner

#11 car:  Brett Bodine Purchased the team from Junior Johnson

#21 car:  Is changing its paint scheme (Predominately orange with white
          and burgandy trim)

#27 car:  New Owner David Blair, Plan to run full schedule if sponsor  
          is found to replace outgoing Hooters

#30 car:  New driver Johnny Benson is last season's Busch Grand        
          National champion

#41 car:  Ricky Craven becomes part owner

#43 car:  Ferguson Enterprises becomes associate sponsor

#75 car:  Factory Stores becomes associate sponsor instead of primary

#97 car:  Owner Mark Rypien plans to run a full Busch schedule with up
         to an additonal five Winston Cup races

I hope this aids in all the inspiring artists to get the new cars out
before the Daytona (less than a month you know).

Rob
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just read in Winston Cup Scene (issue of Jan 11, 1996) that Rick Mast
picked up Hooters as their sponsor for 1996...

(that one ought to be easy enough to do :)

Go #6 Mark Martin and #16 Ted Musgrave - Jack Roush Racing!!
NASCAR Racing!!

http://camalott.com/~sean/nascar/nascar.htm <--NASCAR Racing Sim page

More info (taken from various sites on the net):
#1 - Hooters takes over as sponsor
#2 - Miller Racing "new" sponsor, will promote MGD and Lite in "fine print"
#6 - new paint, resembles Martin's 1995 Brickyard 400 design
#8 - Kendall is new sponsor
#15 - Wally Dallenbach signed as driver for now, looking for sponsor
#42 - new red, blue and gold paint job
#43 - new silver and Petty blue 25th anniversary design
#71 - Olive Garden gone, new sponsor not announced yet
#77 - Federal-Mogul joins Jasper
#81 - Square D new primary sponsor, probably blue/gold colors
#87 - expect a new paint job
#94 - new paint, white accents on front of car
#99 - Jeff Burton's Exide ride is #99, not #98

Can't wait for Daytona! (too bad us Papyrus-sim racers can't race there)