Comments on: NASCAR team count may dwindle http://autoracingsport.com/nascar/nascar-team-count-may-dwindle/ The place for NASCAR news and rumors where the discussion rages... Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:12:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: ncrdbl1 http://autoracingsport.com/nascar/nascar-team-count-may-dwindle/#comment-43908 ncrdbl1 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:46:39 +0000 http://autoracingsport.com/?p=6289#comment-43908 The 35 rule is killing the sport. Sponsors who would normally sign with smaller teams as primaries are choosing to sign on as secondary sponsors on top teams. A Jeff Gordon gets as much for a quarter panel of his car as a Robby Gordon can get for the entire car, yet sponsors would rather go with the quarter panel due to the guarantee of the car being in the race. NASCAR needs to eliminate the 35 rule before it kills the sport or before someone decides that the rule creates an unfair business practice and the court gets into the action. The 35 rule is killing the sport. Sponsors who would normally sign with smaller teams as primaries are choosing to sign on as secondary sponsors on top teams. A Jeff Gordon gets as much for a quarter panel of his car as a Robby Gordon can get for the entire car, yet sponsors would rather go with the quarter panel due to the guarantee of the car being in the race. NASCAR needs to eliminate the 35 rule before it kills the sport or before someone decides that the rule creates an unfair business practice and the court gets into the action.

]]> By: Howie Motorsports Photography http://autoracingsport.com/nascar/nascar-team-count-may-dwindle/#comment-43902 Howie Motorsports Photography Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:36:39 +0000 http://autoracingsport.com/?p=6289#comment-43902 [quote comment="43899"][quote comment="43881"]well one thing for sure is that the NAVY sponsor wont be back on the 88.[/quote] ROFL that's hilarious[/quote] Well i guess you have not heard that NAVY is gone. wrote:

Howie Motorsports Photography wrote:

well one thing for sure is that the NAVY sponsor wont be back on the 88.

ROFL that’s hilarious

Well i guess you have not heard that NAVY is gone.

]]> By: Anonymous http://autoracingsport.com/nascar/nascar-team-count-may-dwindle/#comment-43899 Anonymous Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:24:52 +0000 http://autoracingsport.com/?p=6289#comment-43899 [quote comment="43881"]well one thing for sure is that the NAVY sponsor wont be back on the 88.[/quote] ROFL that's hilarious Howie Motorsports Photography wrote:

well one thing for sure is that the NAVY sponsor wont be back on the 88.

ROFL that’s hilarious

]]> By: Howie Motorsports Photography http://autoracingsport.com/nascar/nascar-team-count-may-dwindle/#comment-43881 Howie Motorsports Photography Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:04:56 +0000 http://autoracingsport.com/?p=6289#comment-43881 well one thing for sure is that the NAVY sponsor wont be back on the 88. well one thing for sure is that the NAVY sponsor wont be back on the 88.

]]> By: Martyisruling http://autoracingsport.com/nascar/nascar-team-count-may-dwindle/#comment-43877 Martyisruling Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:41:33 +0000 http://autoracingsport.com/?p=6289#comment-43877 Look for the max team rule to disappear in a handful of years. There will be one megateam per manufacturer. Look for the max team rule to disappear in a handful of years. There will be one megateam per manufacturer.

]]> By: ruby http://autoracingsport.com/nascar/nascar-team-count-may-dwindle/#comment-43810 ruby Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:39:32 +0000 http://autoracingsport.com/?p=6289#comment-43810 It's not the economy. It's the competition. It’s not the economy. It’s the competition.

]]> By: Howie Motorsports Photography http://autoracingsport.com/nascar/nascar-team-count-may-dwindle/#comment-43774 Howie Motorsports Photography Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:20:02 +0000 http://autoracingsport.com/?p=6289#comment-43774 [quote comment="43772"]pretty soon there wont be any single car teams...running without sponsors...or sponsors wont stay if the results arent happening...i wouldnt be suprised...but there should be enough to fill the entire field everyweek..the racing will be the same...qualify will just be less dramatic without the whole top-35 freakout if there is only 43 show up ;D[/quote] Maybe it would be good if we just had 36 cars in a race , no top 35 rule and great racing on the short tracks. darrell wrote:

pretty soon there wont be any single car teams…running without sponsors…or sponsors wont stay if the results arent happening…i wouldnt be suprised…but there should be enough to fill the entire field everyweek..the racing will be the same…qualify will just be less dramatic without the whole top-35 freakout if there is only 43 show up ;D

Maybe it would be good if we just had 36 cars in a race , no top 35 rule and great racing on the short tracks.

]]> By: Howie Motorsports Photography http://autoracingsport.com/nascar/nascar-team-count-may-dwindle/#comment-43773 Howie Motorsports Photography Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:17:48 +0000 http://autoracingsport.com/?p=6289#comment-43773 I hate it for Robby, he is the way he is and that's why he is in the situation he is in. hes a great driver and a great person to be around and is very competitive with wins in everything he has entered in. even after the 400 on Saturday he wasn't even tired and Sunday morning we shot down to Sarasota for the offshore grand prix boat race and he got to drive the pace boat for the start. he had the best shot of his cup career with Richard in 2004 driving for RCR, everything was fine there, everyone liked him and Richard said he has more talent than anyone he has ever seen race and Richard does not say that about most drivers and then Robby just walks in one day and says thanks but I am starting my own team. we couldn't believe it but even with Richard saying I would like it if you stayed he still left. he blew it because no one would help him again after leaving a ride like that so now he has to live with it and hes already 40. I hate it for Robby, he is the way he is and that’s why he is in the situation he is in. hes a great driver and a great person to be around and is very competitive with wins in everything he has entered in. even after the 400 on Saturday he wasn’t even tired and Sunday morning we shot down to Sarasota for the offshore grand prix boat race and he got to drive the pace boat for the start.
he had the best shot of his cup career with Richard in 2004 driving for RCR, everything was fine there, everyone liked him and Richard said he has more talent than anyone he has ever seen race and Richard does not say that about most drivers and then Robby just walks in one day and says thanks but I am starting my own team. we couldn’t believe it but even with Richard saying I would like it if you stayed he still left. he blew it because no one would help him again after leaving a ride like that so now he has to live with it and hes already 40.

]]> By: darrell http://autoracingsport.com/nascar/nascar-team-count-may-dwindle/#comment-43772 darrell Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:17:27 +0000 http://autoracingsport.com/?p=6289#comment-43772 pretty soon there wont be any single car teams...running without sponsors...or sponsors wont stay if the results arent happening...i wouldnt be suprised...but there should be enough to fill the entire field everyweek..the racing will be the same...qualify will just be less dramatic without the whole top-35 freakout if there is only 43 show up ;D pretty soon there wont be any single car teams…running without sponsors…or sponsors wont stay if the results arent happening…i wouldnt be suprised…but there should be enough to fill the entire field everyweek..the racing will be the same…qualify will just be less dramatic without the whole top-35 freakout if there is only 43 show up ;D

]]> By: Jeff http://autoracingsport.com/nascar/nascar-team-count-may-dwindle/#comment-43771 Jeff Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:01:35 +0000 http://autoracingsport.com/?p=6289#comment-43771 Robby shoulda gone w/ Toyota and then he would have had some actual manufacturer support! The thing is that the teams that are disappearing are junk anyhow... It's not like JGR is folding up the tents here. Aside from all the folks behind the scenes losing jobs, who really cares that these perennial backmarkers won't be on the track? It just makes more room for competitive teams like RCR, JGR, and Evernham to expand to 4 full time teams! Robby shoulda gone w/ Toyota and then he would have had some actual manufacturer support!

The thing is that the teams that are disappearing are junk anyhow… It’s not like JGR is folding up the tents here. Aside from all the folks behind the scenes losing jobs, who really cares that these perennial backmarkers won’t be on the track? It just makes more room for competitive teams like RCR, JGR, and Evernham to expand to 4 full time teams!

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