#22 NASCAR team looking for sponsors

California businessman Mike Held recently bought out Bill Davis Racing, which has been in NASCAR since 1988. Its flagship car — the #22 that won the Daytona 500 in 2002 with Ward Burton behind the wheel — doesn’t yet have sponsorship in place for the upcoming season. “It’s difficult, there’s no doubt about that," Held said. “If you think we’re sitting here with something in our back pocket that we’re just not ready to announce yet, I can assure you that’s not the case. … We’ll keep trying and we’ll keep looking, and we know it’s not going to be easy." He and BDR Vice President Marty Gaunt have “made the decision, having owned our own teams before, the one thing we both made a pact to do was we would not attempt to do something that is short of funding — it always ends in disaster," he added. “If we come out onto the track (in 2009 with a Cup team) it’s because it makes good business sense and nothing more." Rocky Mount Telegram