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Georgia Boys: Bill Lester might be teaming up with a Georgia-based team for the 2007 Craftsman Truck Series. Lester has left the Bill Davis team that fielded the No. 22 for the Cobb County driver for the past two years. It looks like a deal is in the works for Lester to take over driving duties for the Chevrolet truck owned by Billy Ballew Motorsports. The truck team’s business office is based in Woodstock and Ballew lives in Blairsville.

Rockdale County’s Ron Young was among drivers testing at Daytona for the ARCA/ReMax Series last week. Young was driving a No. 14 Dodge in the tests for C.E. Clower preparing for the first ARCA race at the speedway Feb. 10th.

Michelle Theriault, of Alpharetta, Chris Cockrum, of Conyers and Dicky Williamson, of Savannah were also among the 77 drivers participating in the three days of test runs at the superspeedway. Theriault turned the fastest lap among the Georgia delegation.

The speeds registered during the tests ranged from 131 to almost 182 miles-an-hour. The fastest overall lap was registered by the only Toyota in the field. Josh Wise clocked in at 181.925-mph in what was the first stockcar tests for Toyota at Daytona International Speedway.

Buckshot Jones plans to run the Hooter’s Pro-Cup Series in 2007. The Gwinnett County driver has driven in over 200 Busch and Winston/Nextel Cup races since 1995. His last NASCAR events were in 2004.

High Speed TV:

Wednesday December 20

12:00 a.m. NASCAR Busch Series Awards—TNT

Saturday December 23

9:00 a.m. Beyond The Wheel-Atlanta (repeat)—Speed

Sunday December 24

1:00 p.m. Beyond The Wheel Marathon (repeats)—Speed
11:00 p.m. Michael Waltrip Racing—ESPN2

Monday December 25

12:00 a.m. Beyond The Wheel Marathon continues (repeats)—Speed

Saturday’s Allan Vigil Ford 120 will return on January 27, 2007 to Newstalk 750 WSB Radio and www.wsbradio.com. For more race information visit www.captainherb.net.

We are still waiting for official numbers, but the initial estimates for the WSB/Allan Vigil Ford 120 Toys For Tots Broadcast are as follows:

Over 2 truckloads of toys collected and they are still coming in!
Over $4,500 cash and check donations to Marines Toys For Tots
Over 25 units of blood donated at Red Cross Bloodmobile

Major Thanks To All of the following folks that helped us pull this off….

The Harris Family/ The Bar-B-Que House/ Tony, Todd and Fred
1960 NASCAR Champion Rex White
Drivers/ Bill Lester, Kyle Fowler, Davey Matthews and Mason Massey
Mark Arum
U.S. Marines (my nephew Cpl Ryan Wilson!)
Josh, Meterman, Charles, Crystal, Byrd and Fireball for getting us on
David Knight, Vivid Marketing
Trooper Larry Schnall, Georgia State Patrol
Carolyn Stuart, G.B.I.
Douglas County Sheriff’s Department/ Capt. Ron Cain, Sgt. Andy Cooke, Sgt. Glenn Daniel, Matt Grey, Gene Toole
The Blue Knights of Georgia/ Ed Christen and Capt. Charlie Prichart
The Georgia Automobile Racing Hall of Fame Assoc./ Susan Morgan
Atlanta Motor Speedway
Dixie Speedway/ Johnny Clark
Douglas County Citizens Law Enforcement Academy
Civil War Regiment
American Red Cross
Superior Plumbing
Webmaster/ Brian Luders

And the hundreds of listeners that dropped off toys and donations!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year…

Capt. Herb and Karen