Furniture Row, Front Row confirm '07 returns.

Furniture Row Racing and Front Row Motorsports will both return to the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series on a full time basis with single car outfits for Kenny Wallace and Kevin Lepage respectively.

Despite both the #78 Furniture Row and the renumbered #34 Front Row teams finishing outside the top 35 in owner points in 2006 and facing extra competition with the arrival of Toyota in 2007, neither have thrown in the towel and have entrusted veterans Wallace and Lepage to keep their dreams alive.

The Colorado based Furniture Row team will be taking in their second full season of Cup racing with Wallace after a moderately successful debut in 2006. Although the #78 Chevrolet failed to qualify 17 times last season, when the Barney Visser vehicle did make the race, more often than not it ran solidly, finishing 16 of the 19 races it did qualify for with veterans Wallace and Jimmy Spencer at the wheel.

After coping with the difficulties of being the only non east coast based team in the Nextel Cup Series last year, the team have dumped their Busch programme in 2007 in order to focus solely on Cup. Last year the #78 team finished 41st in owner points and their goals for year two will simply be to qualify for more than 19 races and finish in the top 40.

The situation is similar for the Front Row team, which endured a tumultuous 2006 that saw much of its 2005 progress come apart at the seams. Having started life with the #92 car in late 2004, the start of 2006 saw the team join forces with the #34 Mach 1 Motorsports outfit. Then, during the season the Bob Jenkins owned outfit also took the #61 (formerly the #02 Hermie Sadler/#66 Peak Performance) stable under its belt.

Trying to run three full time entries with no sponsorship to speak of was nothing short of disastrous and after using a myriad of different drivers, the best any of the three teams could muster was a 42nd place finish in owner points (#61 car with Lepage). The #34 team finished 43rd and Jenkins has chosen to use this number in 2007 with the #61 and #92 getting mothballed.

Like Furniture Row, Front Row Motorsports are focusing on hanging around on Sunday a little more often after the #61 team failed to qualify for 19 of 36 races and the #34 missed 24 of 35 races last year.