It seems Clint Bowyer finally has decided whether he will stay with Richard Childress Racing or move over to Michael Waltrip's team.
The envelope, please:
Michael Waltrip Racing it is.
All signs point in that direction. Waltrip has scheduled a news conference at Kansas Speedway on Friday to discuss "the future of Michael Waltrip Racing," going on to imply that the Bowyer contract is all but a done deal.
"I feel good about everything we're doing,'' Waltrip said at Dover International Speedway last week.
Bowyer, in the final year of his contract with RCR, will give the Waltrip team three full-time Sprint Cup teams in 2012, joining David Reutimann and Martin Truex Jr.
Bowyer has spent all six of his Cup seasons at RCR, winning four races and making the Chase three times. The partnership unraveled because of sponsorship issues.
"It's definitely going to change the look of (RCR)," RCR driver Kevin Harvick told NASCAR.com. "I think Clint was a good asset for us because he was competitive on a weekly basis, so he brings something to the table. ... He's a good friend of mine and we've been through a lot together, so it's not something that I look at that's real positive.
"But sometimes in this sport, sponsorship and circumstances dictate things happening that you don't really have a lot of control over."