Felix Sabates plans to sell his 20% interest in the Nextel Cup organization he owns with Chip Ganassi in five years. “I’m leaving,” Sabates said. “I’ve told Chip I’m leaving in five years.”
Sabates got into stock car racing in 1989. He sold 80 percent of the company to Ganassi in 2001. He doesn’t want to stay in the sport so long that he can’t get over the pit wall by himself.
“I’m going to leave at Richmond because Richmond always falls on my birthday,” said Sabates, who is 65. “I’m going to walk over and look at Ganassi and say, ‘See ya. I’m gone.’ And watch it on TV.”
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Good. Glad to see his pompous ass out of here. Too bad Chip is his equal in that department.