BDR extends Caterpillar contract

Bill Davis Racing has signed a contract extension with sponsor Caterpillar and expects to re-sign Dave Blaney to continue driving the team's No. 22 Toyota. Mike Brown, the two-car team's general manager, said that the company was in the final year of a five-year contract with the company. It has now signed a multiyear contract extension with the team. "We've had a long partnership with them, and our latest five-year deal was up in 2007, and we all went through the proper channels of sitting down and talking about everything, where we were going with Toyota and what all we had going on and how we thought we could continue our partnership, and everybody agreed it was the right thing to do," Brown said Friday at Michigan International Speedway. "It was a weight off everybody's shoulders, but at the same time, we were thrilled to put it behind us." Scenedaily.com