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Originally Posted by Westheim
JTG Daugherty used to be a two-car team and was terrible. Remember that #37 car? Ya, me neither.
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Welp, ya made me look it up. Thanks for that
... So the 37 was driven by Chris Buescher and then Ryan Preece... I guess those players changing ownership is like rearranging deck chairs... (Although Buescher has been ok the last couple years.)
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Originally Posted by Westheim
The Wood Brothers are content where they are in their technical alliance with Penske. I don't see them finding the funds for a charter at any price.
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The latter is very likely true, but as for the former, if they are
content - since the 2018 season - with 1 pole, 36 top tens, and ZERO wins in 229 races, then they might just find themselves
ecstatic should they come close to achieving mediocrity. Heck, to count their last 10 Cup wins you have to go back to the earliest years of the Reagan administration. I mean, I don't think it would be odd to ask, "What's the point here?"
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Originally Posted by Westheim
Big Roger might as well buy it himself.
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Yep, as I was sayin': He should, to join Hendricks & Gibbs as a four-car powerhouse!.
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Originally Posted by Westheim
Unless it was changed again recently, even the fifth-string "R&D" cars are not allowed anymore for the four-car teams (Hendrick, Gibbs). They were a bit of a loophole to get a fifth car on the grid in at least a handful (seven?) events a year, usually for a prospective rookie. This is like 10+ years ago.
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Right. Pretty sure the charter system not only limits a team to four charters, but also limits them to four entries per race. IOW they can't have a fifth car attempt to qualify on speed if they have their four chartered cars already entered in the race.
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Which makes me think - since Gibbs still has that 23XI appendix through the Denny Hamlin entanglement - that maybe Rick Hendrick can nudge Dale Jr. to finally pony up and bring a JR Motorsports car to Cup racing. As far as I know, Hendrick has no satellite team - there's just too many Chevy teams around that pretend to be first-rate.
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I'd like to see it. Then again, even with an alliance with Hendrick, that would still be a one-car operation. Those are pretty much losers. Doubt Dale Jr. would want to risk that. The alternative would be to try to make it a two-car operation, which would be more money (hello, Teresa?
)... I think Dale Jr's best path - if he were so inclined to be a Cup owner - would be to buy that fourth SHR charter and align with Hendrick as close as the rules will allow for a season or two, while trying to acquire a 2nd charter as soon as possible. But then he's also still very close with Childress, right? So a Childress/Earnhardt Jr partnership could have the prospects of a solid three- and then four-car team... As Richard Childress closes in on 80 years old, I could see that happening at some point...