According to Autosport.com, Earnhardt Ganassi Racing will be announcing that they will be signing Jamie McMurray for the 2010 Nascar Sprint Cup Season.
McMurray, who is 33 years old and has spent the last four year driving a Roush/Fenway Racing Ford, will be driving the EGR's No 1 Chevy that has been piloted by Martin Truex Jr. Truex has signed with Micheal Waltrip Racing to drive the No 56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota Camry.
If these rumors are true then it will mean a reunion of sorts for EGR Co-Owner Chip Ganassi and McMurray.
McMurray made his Nascar Sprint Cup debut in October of 2002, as a substitute driver for the injured Sterling Marlin, in Chip Ganassi's No 40 Dodge. McMurray also got his first Sprint Cup win, in his second start in the car which was at Charlotte.
In 2004, McMurray would statistically have his best season, by finishing 11th in the championship and scoring an impressive 23 top-ten finishes while driving Chip Ganassi Racing's No 42 Dodge. He would leave the team one season later, being replaced by teammate Casey Mears.
Juan Pablo Montoya, who would go on to replace Casey Mears in the No. 42, will claim Ganassi's best ever Sprint Cup Series Championship Chase result, this season. Sterling Marlin holds Ganassi's best pre-Chase championship standings finish of third in Chip Ganassi Racing's inaugural season.
Racintoday.com is also reporting that former Chip Ganassi Racing driver, Sterling Marlin will hang up his driving gloves following the 2009 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Marlin, who is 52 years old, and has raced for over 30 of those 52 years; compiling 10 wins, 216 top 10's and 11 poles.
“Will I miss it? Yeah, in some ways, But in some ways I’ll kinda be glad when it’s over. The sport has changed. It’s not much fun any more.”
-- Sterling Marlin
Sterling gained international fame by wining back to back Daytona 500's, driving the No 4 Kodak Chevy of Morgan McClure Motorsports, in 1994 and 1995. He now spends much of his time tending the farm, that when he was younger, he wanted to get away from.
And as his career in the bright lights, of Nascar's top Series start to fade away, the one-time terror of Daytona has no regrets and no complaints.
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