shake up at Ginn Racing

#3
#3
This really sucks. Sterling is one of the last old school racers left and without a doubt one of the nicest guys in Nascar. :( Not to mention a HUGE Vols fan...would love to see him get a full time truck ride, that's where the real racing is anyways!
 
#6
#6
i don't care how good a guy you are; when you're 50 it's time to do something else.
 
#11
#11
Use to you could be competitve at 50, but now, with the growing interest and competition in Nextel Cup, you pretty much are done after 40.
 
#12
#12
TennesseeFan07 said:
Use to you could be competitve at 50, but now, with the growing interest and competition in Nextel Cup, you pretty much are done after 40.
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Well if you put Sterling or DJ in Hendrick,Roush or Gibbs car they could still compete. The young guys are getting the good rides because of the sponsorships they bring and the old guys have to settle for whatever ride they can get.
 
#13
#13
Sponsorship now days have destroyed Nascar. Just look at Hamlin at Milwaukee. It's rediculous about how much command on a race team they have. But I would have to disagree with you with DJ or Sterling in good equipment being competitive. They were both good in their time, but now they're pretty much done.
 
#15
#15
doozer said:
again, no sponsor, no racing.
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So true, but I miss the good ole days of racing. Back around the late 90s. About every race is in the south, instead of the boring cookie cutter tracks out west. Start times were at 12:30 instead of 3 or 4. Back when there were no debris cautions and the busch series was enjoyable to watch.
 
#16
#16
Rocky Top said:
This really sucks. Sterling is one of the last old school racers left and without a doubt one of the nicest guys in Nascar. :( Not to mention a HUGE Vols fan...would love to see him get a full time truck ride, that's where the real racing is anyways!
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:thumbsup:
 
#17
#17
TennesseeFan07 said:
So true, but I miss the good ole days of racing. Back around the late 90s. About every race is in the south, instead of the boring cookie cutter tracks out west. Start times were at 12:30 instead of 3 or 4. Back when there were no debris cautions and the busch series was enjoyable to watch.
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you mean back in the day when there were still sponsors.

i'd like to tell myself myself that some of you guys would have figured out by now there's a youth movement rolling into NASCAR, but...
 
#19
#19
sponsorship has ALWAYS been important.

if you want to complain about something, complain about technology making it so expensive you can't compete without sponsorship.

i can't stand the 'i miss the good ole days' complaining. NASCAR is like everything else in life, it moves on, and everybody else should to.

/rant
 
#20
#20
Are you kidding? Couple of years ago you could have a bad year and the sponsors would give you another year. Now if you run 15 races and struggle then they drop you. They put so much pressure on drivers that it's hard to just drive.
 
#21
#21
Those young guns Dale Jarrett and Michael Waltrip don't have much of a problem securing sponsors...

Can't really argue against Marlin and Nemechek being replaced... but I don't see why Nemechek wasn't the first to go.
 
#22
#22
like i said blame the technology.

face it, racing is expensive and if i'm a sponsor shelling out major cash for a team, i want results.
 
#23
#23
TennesseeFan07 said:
Are you kidding? Couple of years ago you could have a bad year and the sponsors would give you another year. Now if you run 15 races and struggle then they drop you. They put so much pressure on drivers that it's hard to just drive.
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When was the last time a sponsor pulled their support from a team midway through a season?
 
#24
#24
TennesseeFan07 said:
Are you kidding? Couple of years ago you could have a bad year and the sponsors would give you another year. Now if you run 15 races and struggle then they drop you. They put so much pressure on drivers that it's hard to just drive.
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you will never make it in the coporate world.
 
#25
#25
Rocky Top said:
Well if you put Sterling or DJ in Hendrick,Roush or Gibbs car they could still compete. The young guys are getting the good rides because of the sponsorships they bring and the old guys have to settle for whatever ride they can get.
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Mark Martin led the points until he quit running all of the races this season in a Ginn car, the same Ginn cars that Marlin got canned for doing nothing in.

Dale Earnhardt, Mark Martin, and Rusty Wallace are the only three guys that I can recall that were competitive into their late 40s, in recent times.
 
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