Greg Sacks - Struggles

Struggles

In 1998, it looked like Sacks would finally find a steady ride, driving the #98 Thorn Apple Valley Ford for Cale Yarborough. However, on lap 136 of the Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, Sacks lost control of his car and wrecked, suffering near-fatal injuries. He missed the rest of the season.

Sacks made his return in 1999 in the Busch Series, but only qualified for one of the several races he attempted. Sacks tried his hand at Winston Cup again in 2000, attempting that year's Daytona 500 in the #96 Island Oasis Chevrolet. He did not make the field. After making sporadic races in modifieds, Sacks announced his return to the Winston Cup Series and Busch Series in the summer of 2002, driving the #05 Chevy sponsored by the board game FRANCHI$IT. Sacks, who described FRANCHI$IT as "The Board Game of the 21st Century.," teamed with Loren Fossie to form "Team FRANCHI$IT/Sacks Racing." Originally set to debut at the Brickyard 400, the date was pushed to the fall race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Nothing has been heard from the team since, and it is not clear if the team was originally planned as a marketing tool for FRANCHI$IT.

In 2004, Sacks formed Daytona Speed Inc., with Ed Raabe and James Wilsberg. Making its first attempt at Chicagoland Speedway, the team did not make a race until the Pennsylvania 500 the next month. In February 2005, Raabe departed to form his own race team (Chevrolet), leaving all of the (Dodge) Daytona Speed equipment in care if Sacks. Sacks ran both Pocono races in 2005, and finished 43rd in both of them.

The team attempted a part-time schedule in 2006 with Who's Your Daddy? being the team's primary sponsor, but failed to make the field for any race. In early 2007, an arbitrator forced Who's Your Daddy? to pay over a million dollars to Sacks after an alleged contract violation.