Doug Foley, co-owner of the Foley & Lewis Top Fuel team, said Sunday that Rick Cooper would not return in 2007 as the driver of the second Torco-sponsored dragster.
 
"We'll have a second car, but it won't be with Rick Cooper in the seat," Foley said during NHRA testing at the Nitro Blast-Off at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Doug Foley, co-owner of the Foley & Lewis Top Fuel team, said Sunday that Rick Cooper would not return in 2007 as the driver of the second Torco-sponsored dragster.
 
"We'll have a second car, but it won't be with Rick Cooper in the seat," Foley said during NHRA testing at the Nitro Blast-Off at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
 
He said he and business partner Tim Lewis "haven't decided yet" who will replace Cooper but said they have "a couple of people we've been interviewing."
 
Foley also said Evan Knoll, sponsor of his Accelerator Products/Torco Dragster, have given the team enough funding to compete at 10 National Hot Rod Association races, as well as challenge for the International Hot Rod Association championship.
 
Foley led the IHRA Top Fuel standings at the time of his season-ending accident at Cayuga, Ontario.