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Alabama driver Grant Enfinger lands a NASCAR Sprint Cup ride

By Doug Demmons – The Birmingham News
CONCORD, N.C. — Grant Enfinger has a busy weekend planned.
The driver from Fairhope is competing at Toledo Speedway in Ohio on Sunday in the season finale for the ARCA Series, where he is fourth in the points standings.

But before heading to Ohio, Enfinger stopped off at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Friday to announce that he’ll move up to NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series next year — driving the No. 93 Chevy for a startup team called Sinica Motorsports.

“Definitely a dream come true,” said Enfinger, who will be racing next week at Talladega Superspeedway in NASCAR’s Truck Series race. “Something I’ve been working for all my life.”
Sinica is owned by George Sinica, a native of Argentina, and plans to run a partial schedule of 10 to 15 Cup races in 2012 as well as a few Cup races later this year.

The team gets its cars from Richard Childress Racing and might get its engines from Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing.

Team General Manager Jason Miles said Enfinger will concentrate on testing their cars this year but might make his Cup debut before the season is over.

Miles also said the team has no intention of doing what some other small teams do — start and park.
“We’re not going to start and park. We’re going to race,” Miles said. “He (Enfinger) doesn’t want to start and park and neither do we.”

Which races Sinica will compete at hasn’t been determined yet, Miles said, but Talladega is a must since it’s Enfinger’s home.

The team only has six full-time employees working out of Monroe, N.C., so far, but crew chief Allen Wellman says hiring more won’t be a problem. He said that with so many crew members out of work these days he has already been inundated with resumes.

Enfinger will become the first Alabama driver to race regularly in Cup since 2002, when Hut Stricklin of Calera and Steve Grissom of Gadsden were still racing.

After finishing the ARCA season this weekend in a car owned by Mike Allgaier, Enfinger will drive a Ford next week at Talladega in the Coca-Cola 250.

He has 13 top 10 finishes and one pole in 18 ARCA races this season with a best finish of second at the season’s first race at Toledo. He has an average finish of 8.9.