Kurt’s extension is believed to be through 2021, and he’s said he wants to race the NexGen car. Someone might get squeezed at Ganassi soon if they acquire Bubba.
Sooner I think, he could manage some costs with those new bodies being more durable. Having to pay JGR for cars another year sounds to me like it was his deciding factor.
I am assuming when Levine signed on they expected next year to be the next generation. Paying the costs to JGR for another year and having their driver may be to much.
The pandemic hit Bob's company extremely hard, lets face it. As a construction/land developer, I can imagine all of this has done a number on his bottom line.
I'd love to hear your logic or rationale for blaming Leavine's decision on the charter system. LFR's revenue was boosted substantially by the charter system versus what it would have been before charters. Obviously, it wasn't enough to completely bridge LFR's gap, but still....
How do we know this though? This is something I would want to see to get an idea of the difference in payout between a chartered and non-chartered team in Cup. Like a before and after type of situation to show statistically that is has been viable for teams.
One would think that this is the first time a Cup team owner sold out and moved on.
If you are relying on someone else to supply your driver, cars, and manpower and you have to pay their prices, what do you really have? Maybe a building, some tools. You are at their mercy. Teams that are building and buying their own stuff or buying used, won't have the best pieces, but they have a much lower overhead and much better profit and loss statements. I remember when Leavine was all hopped up on moving to Toyota, "got a better deal" While on the other hand McDowell moves to Front Row, is ranked 20th compared to Bell who is behind in 23. There is no way in hell Jenkins has the overhead that Leavine is forced to pay. I don't think Leavine has any business model to blame, he saw stars and was sold blue sky and he fell for it hook line and sinker. Should have talked to Barney first.
The charter system doesn't guarantee success although some think it should somehow.
Well without it it almost guarantees failure. You realize the business model is so bad that if you don't have a charter you can't make it work. Right now they can't even get 40 cars, so that means with no practice or qualifying all you literally have to do is show up with a car that passes tech (no speed) and guys still cant make the dollars work.
Maybe he did and saw that big, shiny trophy that Barney has.
I almost want them to go back to "start and park." At least then there'd be 2 or so fewer Starcom/RWR cautions a race. But, there'd also be a lead change or two fewer due to not getting stuck behind one of those cars at an inopportune time and allowing trailing car to get a run. (I'm only kidding, that scenario has only happened a couple times this season.)
That's the whole idea.
My guess it is about money, it usually always is. My guess is that Penske probably paid Brad's price, BUT Penske isn't going multiyear for that much with the economy being as it is.
Welcome to the board. I'm not surprised that Blaney got his contract done quick and easy. He is a quality driver and is probably getting "young gun" type money... better than rookie wages but less than "superstar" paygrades. It's inherently tougher to complete Brad's deal as he is paid a lot more, and is a lot more assertive in negotiations. No surprise there.
Blaney got a new contract. Brad got an extension to his existing contract. To me that means Penske didn't want to agree to the terms being asked in a new contract.
They are both contracts. Both are new. You can't sign a one year contract when you had a multi year contract and it be the same.
Is that your way of saying "Your Right"?
nope. it's my way of saying terminology and what really it is are two different things. Brad didn't sign an old contract, the terms of length were changed and no telling what else. So it's a new contract, but on the other hand the term contract extension can be used to describe it.
Your right, a contract extension means the "OLD CONTRACT" is in force for another year. That is why they didn't announce that Brad has signed a "New Contract"
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There is only one outside chance that Bell doesn't go to the 20 that I see and that is that TRD in their cheapness outsmarted themselves and only gave Bell a one year contract when they shuffled him to Leavine. Even so, Bell seems so starry eyed with the Yota bunch it probably wouldn't make any difference if he did have a choice. That would be the surprise of the season if he did blow Toyota town.
