Sauter earns extra PayDay at Homestead

WELCOME, N.C. -- Johnny Sauter will drive a third NASCAR Busch Series entry and Ron Hornaday will drive a fourth Winston Cup car for Richard Childress Racing during NASCAR's season-ending Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

	Johnny Sauter

Sauter will drive a No. 29 PayDay Chevrolet Monte Carlo in Saturday's Ford 300 as part of the celebration surrounding RCR's No. 21 PayDay team's Busch Series owner points championship. Sauter and Kevin Harvick, who will drive the No. 21 Chevrolet in the race, were co-drivers during the team's 2003 championship season.

"This is as much Johnny's trophy as it is Kevin's and everyone else involved with the RCR Busch teams, so we wanted to get him in a PayDay car for the final race of the season," Childress said. "It's also an opportunity for us to thank everyone at Hershey and the PayDay brand for the tremendous support they've given us this year.

"It should be a lot of fun to see what Kevin and Johnny have up their sleeves for a post-race celebration."

Hornaday -- who also has a shot at the Busch Series title when he comes into Saturday's race in the No. 2 ACDelco Chevrolet third in the standings, 39 points behind Brian Vickers -- will drive the No. 90 Childress Vineyards/RCRRacing.com Chevrolet Monte Carlo in Sunday's Ford 400 Winston Cup race.

Childress Vineyards broke ground in September on its winery facility in Lexington, N.C., and current plans call for its first vintage, using grapes from other North Carolina growers, to be available in late 2004.

RCR last entered a No. 90 car when John Andretti drove the AOL 9.0 Optimized/Special Operations Warrior Foundation Chevrolet at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway in September, when he started 24th and finished 15th in the EA Sports 500.