The took Waltrip because this is his first year as an owner AND this is Toyota's first race ... would be my guess.
Outside of those things, I doubt that he would have been in there on the first race, I hope.
Actuallty IF they want to do this right, you at home should be able to move to ANY driver ..... Thats not the way it is currently, but it should be.
If one guy drops out, thay say they will move to another driver, then that means they have the set up in more than 5 cars, why not offer all of the drivers available ?
ALL the drivers should be available if they want to do it right.
Imagine paying the cost of this and find out YOUR driver is not in but a few, how would that make you feel ?
Did they tell you what drivers would be in it before you bought it ?
Jimbo
No they didn't tell me but I did see on this forum that there would be 5 cars selected by D* and NASCAR each race. I wonder who is the backup for the 500? Waltrip probably won't even qualify the way he's running!