Season Preview: Gillette-Evernham Motorsports
January 29, 2008 by Tim Zaegel
Filed under Racing
It wasn’t long ago that life was looking on the up and up for former team owner Ray Evernham. In 2003, the bedrock of his team was built around racing legend Bill Elliott who drover the no. 19 Dodge for Ray and finished the season ranked 9th in points while Jeremy Mayfield, pilot of the no. 19 car, showed remarkable improvement by climbing the ranks to 19th. That would be Bill’s final season running full-time for Evernham, moving over to make room for the next racing phenom, Kasey Kahne. It didn’t take Kahne long to pick up where Bill had …read more
