Jerry Toliver admits his buddy Alan Johnson will be besieged with applicants in the next few days. That’s why he’ll likely hold off submitting one.

Johnson announced on Saturday in Indianapolis that he plans to leave Don Schumacher Racing to field his own nitro team in partnership with Al-Anabi Motorsports. The new team will have a dragster and a Funny Car.

“You never know, we’ll see what happens over there,” Toliver said. “Knowing Alan, it’s going to be a great running organization and I think he’ll have a good time.”

Toliver isn’t sure if there’s an opportunity for him with Johnson at this point and time.

“We’ll see, we haven’t talked about it much,” Toliver added.

Toliver confirmed his status with Don Schumacher Racing is uncertain at this time.

Sources have told CompetitionPlus.com that Rockstar (Energy Drink) will not return in 2009. Reportedly, this decision weighed heavily on the NHRA’s reluctance to enable the team to activate their marketing programs at the NHRA event.

“Everything is kind of in the mix,” Toliver said. “We’ll find out more next week.”

Toliver didn’t say whether the promotional restrictions the NHRA has handed down attributed to the uncertainty.

“It limits what we can do activation-wise,” Toliver said. “That is certainly one of the reasons why ROCKSTAR is here. It doesn’t help us and we’ll just have to see if ROCKSTAR wants to go forward from here.”

Toliver told CompetitionPlus.com that wherever he goes he can take the Rockstar deal with him and is not prevented from switching teams.