The new owner said Yeley also would drive the car in the following weekend's Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's -- where Yeley finished a career-best second in 2007 -- and for what she and her husband hope will be a brief interlude as they resolve Jeremy Mayfield's positive drug test.

"We didn't want to be switching drivers every week," Shana Mayfield said. "The thing about J.J. that we really liked is he lives close to the shop and he came over [Monday] while we were there. He told the guys it wasn't about money -- he just wanted to race, he wanted another chance like Jeremy did when he started the team.

"That's kind of what that team's built on, that heart and soul of wanting to race, wanting second chances and wanting to do good. That's all we really care about. It's not about the fame, the glory and the money; it's just a good group of guys that want to race and J.J. really has that attitude.

Like Tony said, you walk in our shop and there's not a lot there. Yeley's been at [Joe] Gibbs and some big places, but he said he didn't care as long as there was a race car there, a seat and a suit that he could get in and go race. That meant a lot because a lot of people think they're too good to get in a car that's not running too great, but [Yeley] believes in Jeremy and supports him and I think more than anything it was his willingness to be at the shop and help the guys, to be that person that we need to step in there every day."