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Yeah, up toward people who don't need it. I think the field should be open to anyone who wants to try to crack it and can put together a fast enough car to make it. There's nowhere near as much room for that with the charter system and the smaller fields.

Timmy Hill kept coming back out at Michigan last August even though his car was leaking oil like a wet napkin, right up until NASCAR itself had to tell him to pack it up. And the theoretical concern is/was that someone in those last few spots might one day find what they need (ie money) to...

Nobody start-and-parked in 2015 with 43 car fields. The only reason to cut fields was to further stifle competition by making it (even) harder to survive as an open team.

Furniture Row press conference at 10am eastern tomorrow. Will be streaming live on Press Pass.

David Stremme hasn't raced at all since 2014. And he hadn't start-and-parked since 2012. Nobody start-and-parks anymore, at least not in Cup.

Except that Jones has beat Rowdy in Xfinity competition. But I do think the fact that he's such a rare exception also speaks to the problem w/ letting the Cuppers run Xfinity races, at least in the quantity that they do.

To be fair, I'd been having trouble finding articles explaining it completely, because very few actually noted the performance standard at the time of publication, and more than one said "unspecified performance standard". It took a lot of digging to find SpeedCafe's article. "Racing harder"...

Hah, I just found the exact explanation of the performance clause: http://www.speedcafe.com/2016/02/10/nascar-adopts-franchise-model/ Basically, "3 straight years of bottom 3 finishes in charter OP = no more charter". What they don't define is the point at which they begin counting the three...

Allow me to rephrase, it's ill-explained to the general public, almost certainly to conceal the fact that it would be a cold day in the fiery abyss before the likes of Rick Hendrick, Roger Penske, Joe Gibbs, Richard Childress or Gene Haas have to worry about any of their charters. But I'm...

From what I've heard, that's pretty much dead on...

In the battle of public opinion, Ty Dillon's already lost. And I'd wager even the people who compare Jones to eggplant agree...

There is a (naturally ill-defined) performance clause attached to the charters. If a team can't meet the terms of said clause, NASCAR and the RTA can strip them of the charter and put it on the market. I can't imagine anyone would willingly give up their charter at this early stage of the...

Speaking of charters, I wonder what the arrangement is going to be for the 77. Are they going to race as an open team? If not, and that seems likely since Visser and Garone have indicated they wouldn't be making this move w/out charters for both cars, who's going to lose their charter to...

True. And I've just realized that Roush himself only contracted foot-in-mouth syndrome after John Henry came in...

Roush Fenway had "a bad year" several years ago. We've seen how quickly it mushroomed from there. Hendrick has to respond to these struggles swiftly to avoid a similar fate.

Heh. That's what I get for not clicking on the top handful of threads on the home page. How does one go about merging two threads together, anyway?

Basically, Monster does have a lock on the car. The deal calls for them and Haas Automation to split the car in 35 races, and Monster to run one full wrap.

Matt Tifft's had his share of turns in that equipment. Drew Herring's had his chances, too. How many times have they won? How many people even remember Herring?...

By which I mean the OFFICIAL announcement, as per the article itself. It's just like when everyone knew Kenseth and Edwards were going to Gibbs, but they still had to go through the rigamorole of scheduling the official announcements.

That's just like Hendrick at Richmond - three Mountain Dew cars, and then the Lowe's car because Jimmie can't possibly participate in a multi-car promotion...