Mears missing sports cars

Casey Mears isn't the type who likes to miss a race. That was evident when he worked out a deal to race in the annual Turkey Night Grand Prix at Irwindale Speedway in November.
But after leaving Chip Ganassi's NASCAR Nextel Cup Series team for Hendrick Motorsports, Mears was left looking for a team to drive for in the Rolex 24 At Daytona.
Mears was part of the winning team for Ganassi last year. He shared driving duties with Dan Wheldon and Scott Dixon in the team's Lexus Riley.
But now that he's with a General Motors-backed team, racing a Lexus was not an accpetable option.
“I’m already missing it,� Mears said. “I had the opportunity to run it again this year. There were a couple of teams. Being that I’m with Chevrolet, it needed to be a GM team. It looked like Tony (Stewart), Jeff (Gordon) and Jimmie (Johnson) kind of had the top teams sewed up on the GM side. If I come back and do it, I wanted to make sure it was a team capable of winning after going through what I did last year."