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Posted By: thomasmnile
on 08/01/17 07:24pm
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Kurt Busch's Future @ Stewart Haas?
Does he stay or go? What about Bowyer and Danica? Only Harvick has full season sponsorship. Gene Haas certainly can't go out of pocket on 3 teams......could he?
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Posted By: mooky stinks
on 08/01/17 07:35pm
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Don't forget his F1 team. I gotta imagine his money is getting spread pretty thin.
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Posted By: bucky
on 08/02/17 06:27am
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Let's pretend we are a Cup driver without sponsorship for an upcoming season. Say I make 3 to 15 MILLION dollars a year and my team owner wants me to take a big cut in pay or he will have to let me go. Heck yes I'll do it for a lot less to keep doing what I love.
Let's say that Brian will step in and help to save the family golden goose. Would he?
I understand that Mr. Hauss has very deep pockets, and good for him he earned it. Kurt and Kevin are keepers, but I'd shop Danica. Compared to 99.9% of the population she's a great driver but this is Cup we're talking about here.
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Posted By: thomasmnile
on 08/02/17 08:23am
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mooky stinks wrote: Don't forget his F1 team. I gotta imagine his money is getting spread pretty thin.
Mooky, the racing in NASCAR may not be old school, but the sponsorship is rolling back to be sure. I see Clint Bowyer's car for Watkins Glen is being sponsored by a local urgent care medical facility in upstate New York. That's a throwback to the days when NASCAR was a regional sport down here! But, hey their money spends as good as the big dog corporate sponsors. ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/biggrin.gif "biggrin")
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Posted By: PawPaw_n_Gram
on 08/02/17 10:47am
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Racing won't roll back to years previous. What will happen is a few fewer teams each year.
I expect to see 35 car max fields by 2020, 30 cars by 2025.
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Posted By: thomasmnile
on 08/02/17 11:26am
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PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
I expect to see 35 car max fields by 2020, 30 cars by 2025.
Maybe sooner? Only 36 entries for the Glen And if there's any team contractions/disbanding.....
If sponsorship is a challenge for the big teams and NASCAR, must really be tough for the have nots.
This weekend's race is essentially being sponsored by a New York State government agency, much like the upcoming Pure Michigan 400.
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Posted By: bobsallyh
on 08/02/17 12:17pm
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Thomas, since the New York state deal with the Glen is public record, it has been published that New York paid $465,000 to the Glen for the deal. Makes me wonder just how low some other tracks are accepting for deals. Also the lower number of cars sure wont hurt the short tracks as there was no business starting 40 cars at them anyway. I'll bet FRANCECAR never had any idea the deals that were going to be created when the charters were started.
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Posted By: Cloud Dancer
on 08/02/17 12:39pm
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IMO most of these NASCAR problems do not have practical solutions. In this case, once the pinnacle of success is achieved, the future becomes bleak. And, the curve is exponential. You can see it right here on this forum. We steady point out the negative, such that it's all we look for (as we watch all future races). But, me and my man Kyle Busch don't care. We concentrate on winning. Here we come Watkins Glen, OH Boy!!.....
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Posted By: FlatBroke
on 08/02/17 01:55pm
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Yep, I'm negative. Hope Kyle Busch loses!
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Posted By: bobsallyh
on 08/02/17 06:01pm
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Spin Doctor extraordinaire, Steve O'Donnell on his usual Monday morning of playing out the previous days race, announced this AM that the "overtime line" is history. Now the start/finish line will be the line of demarcation, which it should have been all along. I always said the "ink was never dry in the NASCAR rule book, and I sure like what a previous poster called it "liquid rule book". Cloud, I have no favorites, but if I lean toward any driver, it will be the controversial drivers which are far and few between. Somebody that speaks up and out. The rest are just plain too vanilla for my tastes.
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