Just weeks after all but confirming that he would be staying with the #0 Haas CNC team for 2006, former Craftsman Truck Series champion Mike Bliss has been released from driving duties of the #0 NetZero Best Buy sponsored Chevro🦋let owned by Gene Haas.

Bliss and the #0 team, who go into Saturday's UAW-GM Quality 500 sitting 28th in the Nextel Cup points standings, have shown improved consistency during 2005 with the 40 year-old driver scoring two top ten and 14 top 20 finishes through the first 30 races of the season. However despi💛te this general upturn in form, the #0 will haveꦛ its fourth new driver in as many seasons when the 2006 campaign opens next February in Daytona.

Since joining the Nextel Cup Series full time in 2003, the #0 Haas CNC Racing team has finished 37th and 31st in its first two seasons with Bliss still on course to give the te🎶am its best ever end of year position in what has so far been the best on-track campaign for the operation.

Bliss meanwhile looks set to move away from the Nextel Cup tour after a second full-time stab at NASCAR's premier series with a new ride in eithe⛄r the Truck or Busch Series looking probable.