Loose in Turn Three Must Die!

Does life ever get in the way of your pastimes? Sometimes life gets in the way of mine. This blog is mostly a blast for me to write in. This week, it has been a monster. Hence the title of this post—a reference to the old horror movies I grew up loving.

Maybe next week’s version of the Loose in Turn Three experiment will be attack of the two-headed Turn Three. Until then, check out my part in this series, right here.

What will become of Dale Earnhardt Inc?

Charlie: If Martin Truex Jr. and Mark Martin both leave the team—and their sponsors go too—DEI looks like a buy-out candidate to me. How about this scenario? Dale Junior wants to take his Nationwide Series team where the money is—Sprint Cup. Tony Stewart wants to own at least a share of a Chevy team.

DEI has top-35 owner’s on the No. 8 and the No. 1. Junior and Smoke partner up and buy Theresa Earnhardt out, with Tony driving one car, someone else—maybe Brad Kesolowski—in the other.

Junior stays with Hendrick Motorsports, as his daddy did with RCR. There are holes in the argument, I know. But it would be one hell of a story.

Bruce: If Truex and Martin leave, DEI becomes a museum. Otherwise, I can’t punch too many holes in your idea Charlie. Actually, I wouldn’t want to. Maybe once Tony and Jr. take DEI over, they can move the No. 8 back to Jr. in HMS. LOL.

TZ: The notion of Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr. co-owning DEI is a pipe-dream at best. Stewart will wind up in an ownership role once he’s done driving...Jr. will bring JR Motorsports to the Cup level within the next couple of years, and DEI will continue to press forward in its same crummy state for the next few years before either someone else in the family that’s not named Dale takes over, or they just fold altogether.

That’s what we think. What do you think?

Check out Bruce’s NASCAR Bits for this slippage in the third turn…

Do you think Kurt Busch giving up his points to Sam Hornish hurt the team overall?

And TZ at Do You Nascar has this…

With the recent folding of Chip Ganassi’s No. 40 operation due to lack of sponsorship, is this a trend that we can continue to expect in NASCAR with other teams that have struggled with sponsorship…teams like Yates Racing?