Gene Nead will also return as crew chief.

K-LOVE radio will be back to sponsor the team in the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway, while Curb Records will return as an associate sponsor.

McDowell said:

We have new cars, new bodies and lots of potential. Our team has really hustled over the off season to get us prepared for 2013. They’ve put together some awesome cars, and with Roush Yates horsepower under the hood, I know we can run with some of the best teams in the sport. I have a lot to look forward to this year and can’t wait for the green flag in Daytona.

Team owner Phil Parsons added:

We have some great relationships that are continuing, as well as some new ones, which have us very optimistic about 2013. I want to thank K-LOVE, Curb Records, Hyde Park Storage Suites and Ford for all of their support. Their partnerships have allowed us to grow and develop as a team, and we look forward to a great year with them.

McDowell attempted 33 Cup races last season, qualifying for 30 of them. His best finish was 23rd at Bristol Motor Speedway, in a year that was spent mainly starting and parking. His overall average finish was 38th.

Mike Skinner made two starts for PPR, finishing 39th and 40th. David Mayhew made one start for the team at Infineon Raceway, finishing 40th.

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Scott Speed attempted to qualify for the Goody’s Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway. He did not make the race.

Crusader’s Staffing, a company owned by team owner Dell Hamilton, will sponsor the car.

The first two came on rural short tracks in Virginia. The third was a shocker — Friday night’s improbable victory in the NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona International Speedway.

It took three attempts at a green-white-checkered-flag finish for King to win his first NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in his eighth start in the series and his first on a superspeedway.

King was in the lead in the third overtime when Joey Coulter’s Chevrolet flew into the catch fence on the frontstretch after James Buescher’s Chevy turned sideways from contact with the truck of Ron Hornaday Jr. Coulter walked away from the wreck.

The resulting caution froze the field and made a winner of King, who still seemed amazed at his accomplishment when he talked to reporters after the race.

“This is feature win No. 3 for me — in my whole career,” King said. “It’s unbelievable. I couldn’t imagine being here, and we’re here.”

A hard crash on Lap 104 — four laps into overtime at the 2.5-mile track — took out race leader Johnny Sauter, who turned into the outside wall in the tri-oval off the bumper of King, igniting a multicar melee behind them.

“Golly, I flat freakin’ wrecked him,” King lamented on his radio after NASCAR red-flagged the race to clean up debris from the wreck.

Five laps and an 11-minute stoppage later, after a torrent of reassuring words from crew chief Chad Kendrick, King was in victory lane. Timothy Peters, King’s Red Horse Racing teammate came home second. Justin Lofton was credited with a third-place finish, followed by Travis Kvapil and Jason White.

“All I know was, the closing rate was real fast, and I couldn’t get off of him,” King said of the contact with Sauter’s car. “I’m a rookie, and I’ve never pushed (another car in the draft) in my life, and this is my first time at Daytona Speedway or any superspeedway.

“I apologize to him from the bottom of my heart. It wasn’t my intention at all.”

A caution on Lap 61 for a crash involving John King, Cale Gale and Mike Skinner provided a window for drivers to make their final pit stops. The trip down pit road failed to break up the dominant combination of Turner Motorsports drivers Buescher and polesitter Miguel Paludo.

Nelson Piquet Jr., the third of the Turner drivers, took the lead soon after a restart on Lap 69, and the Turner Chevrolets ran 1-2-3 as the race closed in on the 75-lap mark. To that point, Turner drivers had led every green-flag lap.

Lap after lap they maintained that order, Piquet leading Paludo and Buescher, all three trucks hugging the yellow line at the bottom of the track until White led a surge in the outside lane and grabbed the lead from Paludo on Lap 84.

As the trucks approached the stripe on that circuit, Paludo’s Chevy turned sideways and slammed nose-first into the inside wall, bring an abrupt end to the Turner triumvirate.

White led the field to the subsequent restart on Lap 91, with Piquet in second, Sauter third and Buescher fourth. White stayed out front until Parker Kilgerman’s Dodge spun sideways on Lap 95, scattering the back half of the field and damaging the trucks of David Starr, Ross Chastain, Dusty Davis and Bryan Silas.

Notes: Ward Burton finished eighth in his first start in any of NASCAR’s top three series since 2007… Paulie Harraka, who triggered an early wreck, got five straight “lucky dogs” (free passes to regain lost laps) as the highest-scored lapped car. He finished 19th in his first start in the series.

He went on to stretch his fuel — running the entire 206 laps on one pit stop — and survive a green-white-checkered finish to win his third Camping World Truck Series victory in his Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota.

Afterwards he said:

I wasn’t 100 percent aggressive on saving fuel, but I was 92 percent. There was concerns all around.

Top 5: Busch, Aric Almirola, Ron Hornaday, Skinner, and Justin Lofton.

Todd Bodine, Brad Keselowski, Timothy Peters, Miguel Paludo, and Matt Crafton rounded out the top 10.

Notables: Johnny Sauter (11th), Dennis Setzer (12th), Bobby Hamilton Jr (13th), Max Papis (14th), Austin Dillon (17th), Ricky Carmichael (19th), David Starr (23rd), and Elliott Sadler (26th).

Elliott Sadler and Timothy Peters were batting for second in the closing laps when Sadler hooked Peters into the wall. Peters headed to pit road for repairs. He recovered to finish 8th.

Sadler assumed second place for a moment, but hit the wall several laps later when his tire — presumably cut during his contact with Peters — gave way. He finished 26th.

Ron Hornaday spun and lost a lap but managed to recover, finishing third.

Austin Dillon had a rough night, getting together with Donny Lia 20 laps into the race and clay Greenfield 24 laps later. The damage knocked him out of contention. He finished 17th.

With two laps to go, Justin Lofton brushed the wall, then got into David Starr, sending him down the track on the frontstretch and into the inside wall. He bounced off the wall and headed back up the track into the racing line. As he slid towards the outside wall, Ken Schrader slammed hard into his passenger-side door.

As those two trucks hit the outside wall, Miguel Paludo made contact with Dennis Setzer causing Setzer to spin. Starr bounced off the outside wall and made contact with Ricky Carmichael and then Setzer. All drivers walked away uninjured, though Schrader appeared to limp as he exited his truck.

The race was red flagged for cleanup. Paludo finished ninth, Setzer finished 12th, Carmichael finished 19th, Starr finished 23rd, and Schrader finished 24th.

On lap 91, contact between Bodine, Mike Skinner, and Johnny Sauter triggered a multi-truck wreck, including points-leader Ron Hornaday. Hornaday lost two laps and finished 17th. 

Top 5: Busch, Almirola, Bodine, Terry Cook, and David Starr.

Mario Gosselin, Stacy Compton, Dennis Setzer, Justin Hobgood, and Matt Crafton finish sixth through 10th, respectively.

Notables: Timonthy Peters (11th), Colin Braun (12th), Chrissy Wallace (13th), Johnny Sauter (14th), Ron Hornaday (17th), Mike Skinner (19th), Ricky Carmichael (20th), Rick Crawford (21st), Max Papis (22nd), Steve Park (25th), and Mike Wallace (28th).

Top 5: Skinner, Johnny Sauter, Brian Scott, Aric Almirola, and Tayler Malsem.

Crafton, Timothy Peters, Stacy Compton, Ryan Sieg, and Rick Crawford rounded out the top 10.

Notables: Todd Kluever (12th), David Starr (16th), Ron Hornaday (17th), Todd Bodine (18th), Colin Braun (19th), Terry Cook (21st), and Ricky Carmichael (22nd).

Hornaday beat Mike Skinner to the line after a tight battle following the final restart with 10 laps to go.

Top 5: Hornaday, Skinner, Aric Almirola, Dennis Stezer, and Colin Braun.

James Buescher, Tayler Malsam, Stacey Compton, David Starr, and Kyle Busch rounded out the top 10.

Notables: Rick Crawford (11th), Terry Cook (13th), Johhny Sauter (14th), Matt Crafton (16th), Todd Bodine (18th), Ricky Carmichael (19th), and Chad McCumbee (32nd).

Riggs attributed the decision to a lack of sponsorship and poor performance.

Mike Skinner, Patrick Carpentier, and Brian Simo will replace Riggs in the car. Skinner will drive in 17 races, Carpentier will run the five races that conflict with Skinner’s Camping World Truck Series schedule, and Simo will run the road courses.