Racing at the Brickyard this week-end, race thread is up Ping!
fyi and Thanks! .. adding the link for this thread to the FReshly pinged race thread.
DEI completes merger with Ginn Racing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1871013/posts
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A Tuesday NASCAR thread from you? Ya must be suffering withdrawal!
Dale Earnhardt Inc. has become even stronger through a merger with Ginn Racing. Effective immediately, the team will feature the Chevys of #15-Paul Menard, #1-Martin Truex Jr., #8-Dale Earnhardt Jr., #01-Mark Martin and #01-Aric Almirola. Martin and Almirola will combine to drive the #01 Army Chevy for the remainder of the 2007 season as well as the entire 2008 season. Menard drives the Menards Chevy, Truex drives the Bass Pro Shops Chevy and Earnhardt handles driving duties of the Budweiser Chevy. All four entries are inside the top 35 in Nextel Cup points heading into this weekend's Brickyard 400. Regan Smith, who was originally slated to drive the Ginn Clubs and Resorts Chevy in the Brickyard 400, will instead compete in the Craftsman Truck Series race at Indianapolis Raceway Park Friday night in the Ginn Resorts Chevy Silverado. Specific schedules for Martin, Smith and Almirola will be announced later. In addition to Nextel Cup Series competition, the company will continue to field entries in the Busch Series, the Busch East Series and will analyze its future involvement in the Craftsman Truck Series. The numerous teams of Dale Earnhardt Inc. will operate from both the original facility built by Dale and Teresa Earnhardt as well as the nearly 180,000-square-foot facility currently housing Ginn Racing's teams. The buildings are less than five miles apart in Mooresville, N.C. Dale Earnhardt Inc.'s current management team will be responsible for all day-to- day activities and transition plans have already begun to develop. John Story, vice president of motorsports operations for DEI will oversee the expansion of the company's racing efforts. In completing this merger, points on Ginn Racing's #13 car, which was 34th in Nextel Cup owner's points, have been eliminated.
Big news there - #13 points. Me thinks Dave Blaney and the #22 team are doing the happy dance, as they just moved into 35th place (Unless I remember the points wrong)
I wonder why Caterpillar isn’t more aggressive in NASCAR? They seem to be content with never finishing in the top 10 or 15 or even 20. They certainly have the resources and as one who does business with CAT through mining, I can relate that their employees are loyal and enthusiastic race fans, but are continually dissapointed that #22 is always an also-ran.
Curious that CAT can’t seem to put together a better effort.
Thanks for the ping!
I forgot to change my FRRL picks from Chicago---bummer, sort of like the Indy weather.
Oh well, perhaps Sunday will be a sunny day!