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Article: RACING; Kvapil jumps back in Nextel Cup hunt
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 23, 2005
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As he had promised, Travis Kvapil didn't wait long for his second
chance at Nextel Cup racing.
The real question now is what the 2003 Craftsman Truck Series
champion from Janesville will be able to do with it.
"Yeah, I'm going to a single-car team and a team that hasn't had
the performance the last year or two, and it's going to be a big
challenge," Kvapil said Thursday after PPI Motorsports announced his
hiring for 2006. "But . . . there's a lot of opportunity. They were
winning races just a couple years ago."
Owner Cal Wells arrived in NASCAR in 2000, intending to carry his
off-road and open-wheel successes and ideas into stock cars, but that