NEAL SIMS
News staff writer
Tina Gordon's drive in NASCAR's truck series has hit a red light. The green light is on, though, for the Cedar Bluff racer to run in the Busch series.
Lance Hooper, who had been Gordon's crew chief, practiced and qualified the No.13 truck fielded by ThorSport Racing on Thursday for today's race at Dover International Speedway. Gordon, who had raced the truck in the first five events on the schedule, remained at home.
"We parted ways this week," she said. "It was not a good deal for me at all."
Gordon, with her primary sponsorship from Vassarette, a maker of women's intimate apparel, Microtel Inns and Sticks `n' Stuff, is now looking at other opportunities.
A deal to put her in a Busch car is, she said, "a high possibility," perhaps as soon as the June races in Nashville or Kentucky. For now, contract disputes remain with ThorSport.
Gordon finished 24th in the season-opening race at Daytona. At Atlanta, she broke a leg in a violent crash, but came back to finish 30th at Martinsville, 34th in Ohio and 25th at Charlotte.
She ranks 26th in the truck series standings
