Grissom Takes The Wheel
With Mixon's team still struggling to make races, Gregg Mixon hired Steve Grissom. Grissom was the 1993 Busch Series Champion. Grissom then had the advantage of the past champion's provisional, which allowed the most recent champion of the series to start the race automatically. With all other recent champions not running the series or in other good rides, GIC-Mixon was practically guaranteed of making the rest of the races. The first race for Grissom went extremely well. Grissom used the past champion's provisional (43rd place start) and finished in 20th at Kentucky.
Thus began the team's strongest run during its career. Grissom was 26th at Milwaukee, 28th at Chicago, 23rd at Loudon, 30th at Pikes Peak and 28th at IRP. Two weeks after IRP, Grissom finished 25th at Bristol. At Richmond, Mixon picked up Panasonic sponsorship, and Grissom finished 26th. However, after that the team struggled for the rest of the year. For four straight weeks, the team finished outside of the top-35. The last highlight for the team of 2004 was a 24th at Darlington. Also at Phoenix, the team had two cars in the race. One was for Jason Jefferson, who made his debut and Grissom made the race in the #93 Chevy with sponsorship from Red Cactus Salsa
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