Name: Bob Huntington
Relation to Racing: LTR Racing Engines
What do you want from Santa? The official WW & SWS 1999 schedules.
How will you spend Christmas? At JoAnn's mother's in Prunedale.

Name: Powerhas
Team: Tanner Racing
Position with Team:Part time crew member
What do you want from Santa? 1st place trophies.
How will you spend Christmas? Relaxing with family.

Name: Grayson Helms
Team: JDH Motorsports
Position with Team: Driver
What do you want from Santa? As alot of others, I would like a full time sponsor for the 1999 season or be asked to drive for a team.
How will you spend Christmas? Since I am on the road so much during the year, this is a good time for me to visit my parents and spend Christmas with them.

Name: Tony Taranto
Team: I'm currently with #16 WW Bill McAnally's team.
Position with Team:Officially I'm the electrical specialist but I do a little of this and a little of that.
What do you want from Santa? I would like a honeymoon in Las Vegas.
How will you spend Christmas? I am traveling to Washington with my new wife to be with inlaws.

Name: Frank Kaelin
Team: Busby Motorsports #74 SWT
Position with Team: Crew Chief.
What do you want from Santa? A sponsor and good safe 1999 racing season.
How will you spend Christmas? With my wife, Dee Dee and daughter Savanah at home.

Name: Jason Noll
Relation to Racing: #1 Fan of Darrell LaMoure
What do you want from Santa? A new motor.
How will you spend Christmas? Racing my go-kart.

Name: Bob Myers
Team: # 9 Inside Lines car driven by Kenny Shepherd.
Position with Team: Tire Guy (Oh Sorry, Tire Specialist)
What do you want from Santa? A new sponsor......This one sucks because the Sponsor/Car Owner/Driver are all in Cahoots with one another.
How will you spend Christmas? Being thankful that I have had the good fortune to do the thing I really love.....Racin'/Racin'/ Racin'.

Name: Joanne "MA" LaMoure
Team: Desert Thunder # 17
Position with Team: Scorer and Travel Coordinator.
What do you want from Santa? A kiss and hug.
How will you spend Christmas? With my family and friends. About 20 people will be with me for a wonderful day of good food, good cheer and lots of goodies!!!!!!!!!!!

Name: Chris Geisert
Relation to Racing: Sponsor
What do you want from Santa? A healthy baby.
How will you spend Christmas? I'll be spending it at home with my wife as we are expecting our first baby. Merry Christmas everyone!

Name: Darryl Tracy
Team: # 30 QRC Monte Carlo driven by Tom Hubert
Position with Team: Fuel man / Tire specialist / Part time crew chief / Spotter
What do you want from Santa? A Craftsman Truck Series ride for Tom....and a few SWTS events in between.
How will you spend Christmas? A quiet evening with my friends and family after a package thrashing flurry by my 2 daughters that morning...........

Name: Denny Strimple
Relation to Racing: Motor Sports Photography--Winston West, NW Tour, SWT Tour, Craftsman Trucks and.........
What do you want from Santa? A new Nikon F-5
How will you spend Christmas? Sleeping until at least noon.

Name: Mike
Relation to Racing: Consultant for local (Tucson ) race team.
What do you want from Santa? What I want for Christmas is close, hard, CLEAN racing.
How will you spend Christmas? I will spend Christmas with the family in Tucson

Name: Jim Inglebright
Team: Roadrunner Motor Sports
Position with Team: I'm still trying to figure that one out, but for now they let me drive the racecar.
What do you want from Santa? I have pretty much all a guy could ask for I just hope X-mas is good for my wife, daughter and all our friends and family.
How will you spend Christmas? This year Valerie, Jordan and I will be enjoying X-mas with both sides of the family at our home.

Name: Stacy Raudman
Relation to Racing: Husband Craig races on the SWS and WW.
What do you want from Santa? I don't want anything from Santa this year.
How will you spend Christmas? Our families are coming to our house this year.

Name: Robert Ryan
Position with Team:Been involved and interested in racing in Australia for many years.
What do you want from Santa? A lot of great racing!!!
How will you spend Christmas? With the family

Name: Steve McCormack
Team: Scott Gaylord Racing
Position with Team: Hauler driver/Promotions and do whatever I can at the shop and at races.
What do you want from Santa? Good health to keep up with the young guys in the 99 WW Series.
How will you spend Christmas? Quiet Christmas here in Denver, at home, as kids were in for Thanksgiving.

Name: David Starr
Team: Team Texas Motorsports/Winston West
Position with Team: Driver
What do you want from Santa? Like most, I too am asking for a full-time sponsor
How will you spend Christmas? With my family in Houston. We spend the whole year racing so there are only a couple of holidays that we get to spend together so this is a fun time for my family.

Name: Steve Portenga
Team: Steve Portenga Racing
Position with Team: Driver/Owner
What do you want from Santa? A better handling race car.
How will you spend Christmas? With my beautiful girlfriend Colleen.

Name: Colleen O'Ferrall
Team: Steve Portenga Racing
Position with Team: Car Owner/Team Manager
What do you want from Santa? Peace, Lots of time with Steve and a vacation in Hawaii.
How will you spend Christmas? Up at my parents' home in Covelo, relaxing and taking a snow trip with my family.

Name: Noel Dawson and parents
Relation to Racing: Starter for FSWS
What do you want from Santa? A good car count at Tucson.
How will you spend Christmas? In Reno with my parents.

Name: Darrell LaMoure
Team: #17 Southwest
Position with Team: Driver, wrench, wash boy & janitor...
What do you want from Santa? I'm not asking, I like surprises and I really love the giving part of this Holiday. Let's not forget what Christmas is really about, remembering the birth of the God's only Son. Be thankful for what we have! Share a safe and a holy day.
How will you spend Christmas? With my family as always, working with my family isn't the same as the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Business and pleasure are two different things, I consider racing and holidays pleasure.

Name: Bob Farmer
Team: REF Motorsports
Position with Team: Team Owner
What do you want from Santa? Sponsor for the 1999 season.
How will you spend Christmas? I will spend christmas with three of my four children this year, the forth child is in the Army with her husband in Germany.

Name: Kenny Shepherd
Team: Shepherd Motorsports
Position with Team: Driver
What do you want from Santa? I would like the Southwest series schedule for Christmas (just kidding,ha,ha I know Mr. Grill is working hard on it). I got what I wanted for Christmas when Kleenex signed on with me for the 1999 season. I have my entire team from early 98 signed on for the 99 season, without question I have had an early Christmas.
How will you spend Christmas? My race team and I will spend Christmas Eve giving out the remaining inventory of 98's T-shirts and sweatshirts to the homeless and others not as lucky as we are. The Inside Lines Apparel Company has matched the amount of shirts we will giveaway so we now have almost $5,000.00 worth of shirts to give out.

I will enjoy my daughters 5th Christmas with family and close friends.

Merry Christmas to all!

Name: Michael Alsup
Team: Michael Alsup Motorsports
Position with Team: Driver
What do you want from Santa? A New Ski Boat!!!
How will you spend Christmas? With my wife Julia and my two children Shelby and Mitchell, my two dogs, the goat and the turtle.

Name: Eddie and Kimberly Robison
Relation to Racing: Chaplain and Wife for Southwest Series.
What do you want from Santa? We want everyone to have a great holiday season and I want a bunch of sponsors for our drivers, an old bronco and my wife wants some of those shiny rocks that cost a lot!
How will you spend Christmas? We are going to Louisiana to spend the holidays with our families. They live in Winnsboro and Dubach, La. (combined populations of about 7,000 people). We will spend time eating, hanging out, shopping and deer hunting. It should be loads of fun!

Name: Mark Reed
Team: Food 4 Less Motorsports
Position with Team: Driver
What do you want from Santa? A safe and happy 1999 season.
How will you spend Christmas? First with my wife Karla and two boys Cole and Ryan. Second preparing for the Southwest Series season opener at Tucson, AZ.

On behalf of Food 4 Less and my entire team we would like to wish all of our friends and fans a Happy Holiday, and thank them for their support over the years.

Name: Natalie Bass
Team: Davis Racing Enterprises (Winston West #4)
Position with Team: Team Travel Coordinator (Wife of Crew Chief)
What do you want from Santa? A Laptop Computer.
How will you spend Christmas? Christmas Eve at my parents home in Redondo Beach and then we are driving our new motor home up to my sister-in-law (team caterer) and her husband's (team fueler) home in Antioch on Christmas Day.

Name: Dick Varder
Relation to Racing: Winston West Chaplain
What do you want from Santa? A safe 1999 racing season and all the Winston West people to have a closer relationship with God.
How will you spend Christmas? We will have all our family over. Three daughters and their husbands and all seven grandchildren.

Name: Michael Mulder
Team: Steve Portenga Racing
Position with Team: Mechanic/Jackman
What do you want from Santa? Another Southwest Tour Championship for Steve Portenga in 1999.
How will you spend Christmas? With my wonderful family here in Southern California, maybe go to Zion National Park in Utah for the weekend, if I cant find a race to attend, anyone interested.

Name: Gerald King
Team: Desert Thunder # 17
Position with Team: Tire Man
What do you want from Santa? A bag of twenty's and a blonde or a Speed Truck would be cool.
How will you spend Christmas? B-Que. a goat and sacrifice a chicken, No really, I always hang with the Family. This time of year is when we share lots of stories and laugh a lot...

Name: Michael "racermike" Kelley
Team: "Doc" Faustina, #6 Winston West
Position with Team: Crew Chief
What do you want from Santa? Want all underprivileged kids to have a merry Christmas.
How will you spend Christmas? Eating, watching tv, talking to family back East.

Name: Nick Joanides
Team: JSI Motorsports
Position with Team: Driver/Owner
What do you want from Santa? A sponsor and the woman of my dreams to finally give in to me after 13 years!
How will you spend Christmas? With family, Christmas Eve in the Palm Springs area and Christmas day up in the Lancaster area!

Name: Lynn Hensley
Team: J & M Baling Racing #52 Monte Carlo [Southwest Series]
Position with Team: PR & pit crew
What do you want from Santa? A sponsor
How will you spend Christmas? Las Vegas

Name: Joe Blair
Team: #3 Winston West
Position with Team: Tire Carrier, Jack of All Trades, Master of None
What do you want from Santa? A good solid driver.
How will you spend Christmas? At home with my lovely wife and 2 children.

Name: Gary Glass
Position with Team: Crew Chief
What do you want from Santa? I am just hoping I don't get a lump of coal (again).
How will you spend Christmas? With my Girlfriend and my family.

Name: Mike Harrington
Team: Would like to start a race team next season
Position with Team: Attorney/Driver
What do you want from Santa? A late model sportsman
How will you spend Christmas? Open presents with family and my 1 yr. old Labrador (he'll get a few presents, too).

Name: Bryan Germone
Team: Germone Racing
Position with Team: The Driver
What do you want from Santa? A sponsor with lots of money that would love to take me Winston Cup Racing for the rest of my life, (until I'm too old to walk).
How will you spend Christmas? Olivia, my girlfriend, and I are going to spend Christmas eve with my family in Sebastopol and then Christmas morning we will drive to her parents house in Chico and spend the rest of the weekend. Then back to work Monday morning. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See everyone at the Winter Heat in Tucson!

Name: Ron Esau
Team: Lucas Oil Racing Team (Southwest Tour)
Position with Team: Driver
What do you want from Santa? To be able to walk normal after my foot accident (still healing)
How will you spend Christmas? Family

Name: The Gaylord's
Team: 00 Oliver Winston West
What do you want from Santa? A Happy Christmas
How will you spend Christmas? At home with the family watching the children open presents.