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Originally Posted by 87GTA
NO body owns the numbers NASCAR owns the numbers and every year every team puts a bid in to nascar for the numbers if nascar wants to take away a number they can!! and yates is useing a diffarent number and gave up the bid for the 88!!
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"NASCAR owns the numbers and licenses them to teams on an annual basis," series spokesman Randy Poston told the newspaper. "A team may allow another team to use the number for that year pending NASCAR's approval." Generally, if a team has been using a number, that number is re-issued to the same team, Poston told the newspaper. If a team relinquishes the number, it reverts back to NASCAR.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/s...d=2&id=2916723
Yates voluntarily gave up the 88 and asked that it went to Jr. since it used to belong to Jr's grandfather Ralph. Yates and Ralph raced together back in the day.
- Justin