Ragan expects to return to Front Row: Richard Petty Motorsports recently signed Sam Hornish Jr. to drive the teams #9 car next season but there was a lot of talk during the weeks leading up to the announcement that David Ragan was the favorite to replace the departing Marcos Ambrose. Ragan says that wasnt the case and despite his sincere desire to join RPM they never had anything more than preliminary conversations. I had my contract coming up at the end of the year and we havent talked a whole lot about the 2015 season Ragan told Popular Speed on Wednesday. My goal was to get myself in a real good competitive situation and I didnt have a contract and I showed them some interest but thats it. Ragan added that Richard Petty and his co-owners had a game-plan for what they wanted to do with the #9 moving forward and those plans simply didnt include him. With his casual interest in Petty aside Ragan expressed pride and satisfaction in his relationship with Front Row Motorsports and believes that they will come to an agreement prior to the start of the 2015 season. The team owners including Bob Jenkins are working to finalize their sponsorship agreements first and the driver lineup will come next. I havent finalized anything with the team yet but were working on it Ragan said. Weve got to get the sponsors lined up. The owners have to get their budgets sorted and the drivers are usually the last things to come together. Hopefully over the next few weeks well get that sorted. I would definitely love to be back.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:10:30 +0000
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