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NASCAR Craftsman Truck and Nationwide Series team owner Kevin Harvick said Friday he doesn't know if Camping World will become the Truck Series title sponsor, but he knows the company is of several looking at it for next season and beyond.

Camping World has decided it will not sponsor the Kevin Harvick Inc. Nationwide team for 14 races next season as the team had hoped, Harvick said at Kansas Speedway on Friday. Camping World will continue as the primary sponsor of Ron Hornaday Jr.'s KHI Chevrolet Silverado in the Truck Series next year, however.

"Right now on the truck side, it doesn't really affect anything until the end of 2009," Harvick said. "Camping World is signed on to be the sponsor through the end of '09.  It affects our Nationwide program a little bit. It opens up a 14-race gap that wasn't there. That is how it affects it."

As far as Camping World's plans with the Truck Series, Harvick added, "Obviously Camping World has been involved in a lot of entitlements and things. I want them to do what is best for them as a sponsor and what works best for them. Understanding where everything comes from and how it works, I think for them, it sounds like they think that is a better avenue. That is OK. They are still solid on our truck and I feel confident on getting the 14 races on our Nationwide car put in place."

But Harvick stopped short of saying Camping World would replace Craftsman as Truck Series sponsor next season, saying he'd been told by NASCAR officials that there other potential sponsors in discussions as well.

"I think the fact that there is more than one sponsor in the mix is definitely a good thing. Not only for NASCAR but for the teams," said Harvick. "When you look at the Truck Series, the last couple of weeks, the truck count has been down a little but you don't have a bunch of people start and parking. You have 30 or 28 trucks that are racing and from a team owner standpoint that is a good thing when you have trucks on the race track racing. On the West Coast, the count is always down this time of year. It is definitely a good thing that are a few people involved in the entitlement chase."