By Bob Ellis

Two things caught my eye tonight while I was web-crawling the usual NASCAR related haunts:

1) NASCAR.com is reporting that ARMY will indeed be pulling its sponsorship from DEI. This is really nothing new, but here is the twist; they are moving to Stewart-Haas Racing to sponsor Ryan Newman in the #39 car.

Hmm … interesting.

2) AJ “The Dinger” Allmendinger is going to drive the last 5 races in GEM’s #10 car, with Mike Wallace handling the duties this weekend at Charlotte as AJ has already committed to drive MWR’s 00 car this week.

This leaves Patrick Carpentier high and dry for the remainder of the year. He was already out at the end of this season anyway because Reed Sorenson was going to be taking over the 10 car next year.

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