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Revision as of 18:14, 23 July 2005 by D-Day (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Arnold Motorsports is a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series team owned by Don Arnold. 1983 Winston Cup champion Bobby Allison is the Vice President of operations and is a consultant. The team debuted in 2003 as the #79 car (orginally Ford), with All-Pro driver Billy Bigley Jr. driving, the team orginally planned to run 34 races, but eventually scaled back its plans. After Bigley failed to qualify for the three events he attempted, he was released. The team returned full-time in 2004 with Derrike Cope at the wheel.(This car made it onto NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup by EA Sports). Cope co-owned the team and merged his Qwest Motorsports team with Arnold's. The team recieved sponsorship from Racingjunk.com but was forced to remove its decales by NASCAR after the company changed its name to Redneckjunk.com. NASCAR apparentley did this to increase their demographic from the southeast After twelve starts, Cope was replaced by Mike Wallace at Dover International Speedway. Wallace, along with P.J. Jones, Jeff Fuller, and Todd Bodine finished out the year. This year, Jimmy Spencer has driven the car in what has turned out to be a limited schedule due to lack of sponsorship. However, the team will be probably announce a sponsor for the rest of 2005 and all of 2006 at the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis. No word on whether Spencer will drive if the team can pull of a full schedule. Arnold also owned a share of a Craftsman Truck team with Germain Motor Company as the #30 Toyota. The truck was piloted last year by Todd Bodine and this year by Shigeaki Hattori. But Arnold sold the intrest in his cup team to focus on Cup.