This news comes on the heels of news that TBR signed UME and Accell to sponsor the No. 36 Chevy driven by JJ Yeley for nine Cup races.

Blaney drove the No. 36 last year, but that car’s number changed to the No. 7, with a second team forming with the No. 36.

Update: Florida Lottery has signed on to sponsor TBR’s No. 7 for three races in 2013.

Update 2: TBR owner Tommy Baldwin announced that he would serve as crew chief for the No. 7 Sprint Cup Chevy and driver Dave Blaney.

Update 3: Tommy Baldwin Racing owner Tommy Baldwin expects to be more competitive in 2013. He expects his teams to run consistently in the top 20 to 25. The team also ended its alliance with Stewart Haas Racing, and is instead using Richard Childress Racing chassis that are modified in-house.

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Team owner Tommy Baldwin said:

United Mining Equipment tested TBR and NASCAR out at Homestead-Miami Speedway last year and really liked what they saw. By expanding their program this year emphasizes that our program and NASCAR can work for any business category.

The team will also field the No. 7 Chevy driven by Dave Blaney.

Update: TBR announced the Accell Construction will sponsor the team’s No. 36 Chevy and driver JJ Yeley for Sprint Cup six races in 2013. Accell will appear on the car in the Subway Fresh Fit 500 and the AdvoCare 500 at Phoenix International Raceway, the Texas 500 and the AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, and the STP 400 and the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway.

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Yeley said:

I am energized and looking forward to working with [owner and manager] Jay Robinson and our team beginning at Daytona in the Duel 150 race and building success all the way to Homestead. I have enjoyed a good working relationship in the past with Tony Furr as my crew chief and am happy to be partnered with him again on this team.

No word on sponsorship plans.

TOR team owner, former CWTS, Nationwide, and Sprint Cup Series driver Stacy Compton, said:

It has always been our objective to grow the team and this is just the next step in that plan. We have a great group of partners behind us and feel like we are taking all the right steps to build a very competitive Sprint Cup team.

There has been no word from the team on sponsorship or a potential driver, but the team indicated that it has partnered with one of its “long-time supports” for a handful of events this coming season. Last season, the team’s No. 60 truck featured sponsorship from Fuel Doctor and Red Bull, while its No. 66 truck featured sponsorship from GoPro, the National Watermelon Promotion Board, and a few other sponsors. Fuel Doctor seems the most like the sponsor the team referred to in its release.

Cole Whitt and Justin Marks drove for the team last season. Whitt recently signed on to drive the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevy to replace Aric Almirola, who left to join Richard Petty Motorsports after AJ Allmendinger left to take over driving duties of the No. 22 Penske Racing Dodge vacated by Kurt Busch. Whitt could be the top candidate to drive TOR’s entry.

Other drivers without rides for next season are Brian Vickers, Landon Cassill, Travis Kvapil and JJ Yeley.

Poor-mouthing Tony Stewart, who four days ago minimized his chances for a third Sprint Cup title, outlasted the field in Monday’s rain-delayed Geico 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.

Saving fuel during a 50-lap green-flag run to the finish, Stewart, who started 26th, crossed the stripe .941 seconds ahead of hard-charging Kevin Harvick to win his first race of the season and the 40th of his career, tying him with Mark Martin for 16th on the all-time list.

This is the same Stewart who had said at Thursday’s Chase media day in Chicago that there were seven drivers who could win the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup—and he wasn’t one of them.

“Counting Tony Stewart out—that’s pretty funny that he counts himself out,” said Harvick, who took the Chase lead by seven points over second-place Stewart. “He’s won a ton of races to start off the Chase like they did today.

“(He has) the notes and teammates and things to lean on at Hendrick Motorsports and Ryan (Newman) and all the stuff they have to lean on, there’s no way they’re going to be totally out to lunch. So I think that’s yet to be seen. So he ran strong all day and drove from the back to the front and led the race and won the race.

“So he shouldn’t count himself out—that’s pretty funny.”

Dale Earnhardt Jr., who saved enough fuel to get to the checkered flag, came home third, after other contenders—five-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson among them—ran out of gas ahead of him.

Carl Edwards ran fourth, followed by Brad Keselowski and Kurt Busch, as drivers in the Chase claimed the top six positions. Johnson finished 10th after NASCAR demoted polesitter Matt Kenseth—also out of gas—to 21st for getting a push from J.J. Yeley through Turns 3 and 4 on the final lap.

NASCAR rules prohibit one car from assisting another on the last lap.

Last year, in the first Chase race at New Hampshire, Stewart gambled on fuel mileage—and lost. He finished 24th in that race, severely damaging his title chances. Stewart said he wasn’t thinking about New Hampshire in the closing laps—just about the interval between his No. 14 Chevrolet and the cars that were chasing him.

“You hate to have to play the fuel-mileage game, but that’s just the way the caution came out,” Stewart said. “We came in and got fuel (on Lap 214 of 267) and (crew chief) Darian (Grubb) said we had to save a lap’s worth of fuel, but we had a whole run to do it.

“I felt like we had saved enough to get us to the end, but we came off Turn 2 after we got the checkered, and the fuel pressure was down to two pounds, and it stayed there until just shortly after we picked up the checkered flag at the flagstand. We didn’t do any wild burnout or anything like that, and we ran out before we ever got on pit road. So we were closer than I wanted to be.”

Given his position entering the Chase—12 points behind Kyle Busch and Harvick—Stewart felt he could take the chance on fuel.

“We didn’t have anything to lose,” he said. “Where we’re at in the Chase right now, we had to press.”

Kenseth took the lead from Martin Truex Jr. on Lap 228, 10 laps after a restart forced by the sixth caution of the race, for debris. Stewart passed Kenseth for the top spot through Turns 3 and 4 on Lap 238, with Kenseth needing to save fuel and not contesting the position.

Though Stewart briefly surrendered the lead to Truex in the closing laps, the No. 14 team wasn’t worried, because Truex couldn’t go the distance and had to pit for fuel. Truex finished 18th.

The first Chase race worked out brilliantly for Earnhardt, who ran out of fuel off Turn 4 on the final lap. Earnhardt was mired in traffic for much of the afternoon but worked his way into the top 10 during the final fuel run—and then let attrition take its course.

“I just knew we were going to get a good finish if we didn’t run out of fuel,” Earnhardt said. “I was happy where we were. I thought we had really improved throughout the day. And, yeah, it felt a lot similar to how we ran earlier in the year where we would … use strategy to improve our finishing position.”

The second race of the Chase is Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Travis Kvapil, who normally drives the No. 38, will move to FRM’s No. 55 entry, the car Yeley normally drives, for the race.

Yeley started the season driving for Whitney Motorsports in the No. 46 Chevy. He filled in for Kvapil in the LENOX Industrial Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway while Kvapil drove in the Camping World Truck Series race at Iowa Speedway.

Two races later, he drove the No. 55 for FRM.

Erik Darnell replaced Yeley in WMS’s No. 46 car at NHMS. He also drove in the Good Sam RV Insurance 500 at Pocono Raceway for Whitney.  At Watkins Glen International, Yeley was back in the No. 46.

The following week, Yeley drove the no. 55 again. WMS announced that Scott Speed would drive their No. 46 for the remainder of the season.

Yeley has made 19 starts this season; he has an average finish of 40th.

This race marks WM’s last fielding a Chevy. Starting at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, WM will field Fords using FR9 engines.

The No. 38 is 37th in owner’s points, meaning Yeley will need to qualify on speed. This will be Yeley’s first time driving for FRM.