Facebook posts detail change in Premium Motorsports Sprint Cup ride
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Mike Wallace announced Saturday that he is looking for a ride after failing to make a second consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race for Premium Motorsports. On Sunday, Vision Racing said Tanner Berryhill will attempt to make his Sprint Cup debut next week at Phoenix International Raceway in the No. 66 ride that Wallace has vacated.
“Looking for additional racing (driving) opportunities Cup, Xfinity, Trucks,” Wallace wrote on his Facebook page. “The 66 NASCAR Sprint Cup series car I was driving for Premium Motorsports has decided not to field the car at every race starting with not going to Phoenix next week and no additional race schedule at this time.
“I enjoyed qualifying 16th and making the Daytona 500 with the team.”
Wallace finished 36th in the season-opening race. In six races with the team at the end of 2014, his best finish was 26th at Martinsville Speedway.
Premium Motorsports also fields the No. 62 Chevrolet SS for Brendan Gaughan, who finished 28th in his debut for the team last week at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He’ll start 43rd on owner points in his hometown at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday (3:30 p.m. ET, FOX). Brian Scott failed to make the Daytona 500 in the ride.
Wallace, who will turn 56 years old on Tuesday, has three top-five finishes in 197 Sprint Cup starts. In the XFINITY Series, he has four wins in 494 starts and five wins in 115 starts in the Camping World Truck Series. One of only 22 drivers in NASCAR history with 800 or more national series starts, Wallace ranks 22nd on the all-time list.
The Vision Racing Team Facebook page posted congratulations to Berryhill for getting in the No. 66 car next weekend at Phoenix (March 15, 3:30 p.m. ET, FOX).
The 21-year-old Berryhill has 40 XFINITY Series starts from 2012-2014 with a career-best 17th-place finish last August at Mid-Ohio.
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