Carl Edwards says he has no regrets on retirement decision

Mopardh9 said:
I just find the entire retirement thing very odd, there is a lot more to this story for sure. Something behind the scenes happened, you just don't retire at the pinnacle of your career without there being an underlining issue.
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Yep.
 
I don't know. I guess to doubt him and his stated intentions, I'd have to call him a liar. Maybe exactly what he said is just the way it is. I can only guess that the guy is well enough off to live his life as he likes. Doing that at that young of an age is probably most people's dream. I know I'd have done it in a heartbeat if it would have been possible. I have no reason to doubt him.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
I don't know. I guess to doubt him and his stated intentions, I'd have to call him a liar. Maybe exactly what he said is just the way it is. I can only guess that the guy is well enough off to live his life as he likes. Doing that at that young of an age is probably most people's dream. I know I'd have done it in a heartbeat if it would have been possible. I have no reason to doubt him.
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I don't think he's a liar. I think he feels that all of the facts aren't any of our business and I would agree.
 
Regardless of why Carl walked away I am glad he is happy and if he gets the itch again I hope he gets a top ride. I believe one of the reasons he retired was to be a "normal" person that goes on field trips with his kids and gives him time to be a family man and pursue other things he would like to do. I can't argue with him about that because at the end of the day those things are more important than racing a car.
 
Johali said:
I don't think he's a liar. I think he feels that all of the facts aren't any of our business and I would agree.
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Quite so. Through out ones business career , you learn that there are public judgements and private judgements when making a change.
If you make known your private judgements, those are also known as burnt bridges - usually.
 
Mopardh9 said:
I just find the entire retirement thing very odd, there is a lot more to this story for sure. Something behind the scenes happened, you just don't retire at the pinnacle of your career without there being an underlining issue.
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It happens occasionally...

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I'm not sure if he's going to race again or not, but I don't see why there has to be an underlying issue. I'm sure he's got enough money to live comfortably for the rest of his life, so maybe he decided that being a husband and dad is more important than traveling 9 months a year to drive a race car. If that's the case, it's an admirable decision. No matter the reason, I hope it works out for him and he's happy with his decision.
 
As long as he is happy with it then that should be the end of it. Isn't his wife a doctor or something? Maybe between Jr's concussion and the two of them they decided that life was too short to risk it. Maybe he just simply at a point that he could afford to take another path that he would get satisfaction out of. I just hope there isn't something that we don't know that is a real problem If it is then it is their right to not reveal it. I'll just wish him happiness and peace in this new life.
 
Carl will come back. My guess and just a guess but I think Arris wanted Suarez in the car after the Xfinity title. There is more to the story.
 
I think he heard about the changes to the points system, and said the heck with this. That's just my hunch. I am going to miss the back flips. Hey... maybe that's it. It was getting to hard for him to do the back flips anymore. :D
 
http://www.sportingnews.com/nascar/...r-dale-earnhardt-jr/k8ymbexqe9m11kphe9ihnaj1r

The way this reads sure doesn't sound like he made that decision all of his own.

This part in particular I found wierd..

"I'm paying attention enough and staying really fit and as engaged as [Joe Gibbs Racing] will let me be. I'll always be ready if somebody needs a driver for something."

You would think that if anyone were to be moved because a rich kid wanted to be moved up the driver they'd move would be Kenseth giving that he's up there in age.

Regardless it's the sports lost.
 
He has said he's happy to be a substitute driver, a la Jeff Gordon.

Much like Dale Earnhardt's death impacted Rusty Wallace, Im positive Dale Jr's concussion forces Edwards to step back and look around.
 
ChexOrWrex said:
He has said he's happy to be a substitute driver, a la Jeff Gordon.

Much like Dale Earnhardt's death impacted Rusty Wallace, Im positive Dale Jr's concussion forces Edwards to step back and look around.
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That was a big wreck he was in at Homestead. That could of started the domino.
 
Robert J Sublett said:
Carl will come back. My guess and just a guess but I think Arris wanted Suarez in the car after the Xfinity title. There is more to the story.
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This totally true, Arris did in fact want Suarez in the car and not Carl, that is why I said there is underlying issues. You don't abruptly retire at the top of your game like this without something forcing you to it. I still believe he will be driving a race car before the middle of the season, if not in Nascar in some other prominent racing series.
 
Anyone here old enough to remember Ned Jarrett's career? I know some are but most probably aren't. He's also a driver that retired as a top driver at an early age. What Carl's doing is not setting a precedent. What Carl's done has happened before for similar reasons.

Jarrett: There were a number of reasons that I got out as early as I did. One was that I vowed to myself early on that however far up the ladder I got, I would quit while I was there and not go down the other side. People have a tendency to remember the last thing you did and I didn’t want them to remember me as a has-been. Also, we didn’t know how long we could continue to race and how old we could be and continue to race and be effective. We were comparing ourselves to athletes in other sports. You get in your mid-30s and you start losing some of that athletic ability. I was 34 and although I felt like I still had some years left in me, I had broken my back the year before in ’65, but I continued to drive through that and won the championship. I don’t say that boastfully but that’s the way it was. I felt physically fit to continue on in ’66 and then Ford pulled out and it made me step back and take a look at the lack of security there was in the sport, for one thing. I was also missing out on a lot of things that my children had going on in their lives and I wanted to be a part of it. My daughter (Patti) was six years old. Dale was nine years old. My oldest son Glenn was fifteen. They were at the stages of their lives where they had a lot of things going on. I couldn’t be a part of their lives as long as I was running all over the country driving race cars. That factored into it as well.

Does there really have to be some sort of ulterior motive on Carl's behalf? Sometimes the story is really a non-story.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Anyone here old enough to remember Ned Jarrett's career? I know some are but most probably aren't. He's also a driver that retired as a top driver at an early age. What Carl's doing is not setting a precedent. What Carl's done has happened before for similar reasons.

Jarrett: There were a number of reasons that I got out as early as I did. One was that I vowed to myself early on that however far up the ladder I got, I would quit while I was there and not go down the other side. People have a tendency to remember the last thing you did and I didn’t want them to remember me as a has-been. Also, we didn’t know how long we could continue to race and how old we could be and continue to race and be effective. We were comparing ourselves to athletes in other sports. You get in your mid-30s and you start losing some of that athletic ability. I was 34 and although I felt like I still had some years left in me, I had broken my back the year before in ’65, but I continued to drive through that and won the championship. I don’t say that boastfully but that’s the way it was. I felt physically fit to continue on in ’66 and then Ford pulled out and it made me step back and take a look at the lack of security there was in the sport, for one thing. I was also missing out on a lot of things that my children had going on in their lives and I wanted to be a part of it. My daughter (Patti) was six years old. Dale was nine years old. My oldest son Glenn was fifteen. They were at the stages of their lives where they had a lot of things going on. I couldn’t be a part of their lives as long as I was running all over the country driving race cars. That factored into it as well.

Does there really have to be some sort of ulterior motive on Carl's behalf? Sometimes the story is really a non-story.
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True...but I'd wager money that this is not the case with Carl
 
Hotrod said:
That was a big wreck he was in at Homestead. That could of started the domino.
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The way he went and shook Todd Gordon's hand, I think he had his mind made up before season's end.
 
Does anybody know how much time is/was left on Edwards' contract with JGR? I can't imagine he could take a ride with another team until his JGR contract expires.
 
Robert J Sublett said:
Carl will come back. My guess and just a guess but I think Arris wanted Suarez in the car after the Xfinity title. There is more to the story.
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I agree, but DO NOT call Carl a placeholder. Little birdie tells me that this really pisses people off.

ChexOrWrex said:
The way he went and shook Todd Gordon's hand, I think he had his mind made up before season's end.
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Will never understand why that moment is so cherished by some fans in a sport where fights are replayed over and over. I didn't get it. I will never get it. Seemed like the guy got over screwing his Championship in a hurry. Didn't understand the receiving end either. He screwed Joey, and Gordon was just in love with it all. Weird. I mean, Joey shat himself over Kenseth's block, but gushes over Carl's move because he hugged everybody?

MRM said:
Does anybody know how much time is/was left on Edwards' contract with JGR? I can't imagine he could take a ride with another team until his JGR contract expires.
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One year. Next year will be interesting. Can't imagine that Carl will sign with anybody else ever. Nawwwwwwwww.
 
Revman said:
Will never understand why that moment is so cherished by some fans in a sport where fights are replayed over and over. I didn't get it. I will never get it. Seemed like the guy got over screwing his Championship in a hurry. Didn't understand the receiving end either. He screwed Joey, and Gordon was just in love with it all. Weird. I mean, Joey shat himself over Kenseth's block, but gushes over Carl's move because he hugged everybody?
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Because some people don't live in a fantasy internet warrior mentality.
 
Michfan said:
Because some people don't live in a fantasy internet warrior mentality.
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Yeah, and others don't believe everything they see/hear. Good to hear from you.
 
MRM said:
Does anybody know how much time is/was left on Edwards' contract with JGR? I can't imagine he could take a ride with another team until his JGR contract expires.
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Well if I were able to look at the old Jayski to maybe verify this but you can take that with a grain of salt but I'm pretty positive that this was his final year in his current contract. You also can take this piece of information as a grain of salt but originally the plan was for Suarez to take over the arris sponsorship for Edwards not exactly pushing him out so to speak but to take over the sponsorship in the cup series just wasn't until after this year that's what I remember from the initial deal.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Anyone here old enough to remember Ned Jarrett's career? I know some are but most probably aren't. He's also a driver that retired as a top driver at an early age. What Carl's doing is not setting a precedent. What Carl's done has happened before for similar reasons.

Jarrett: There were a number of reasons that I got out as early as I did. One was that I vowed to myself early on that however far up the ladder I got, I would quit while I was there and not go down the other side. People have a tendency to remember the last thing you did and I didn’t want them to remember me as a has-been. Also, we didn’t know how long we could continue to race and how old we could be and continue to race and be effective. We were comparing ourselves to athletes in other sports. You get in your mid-30s and you start losing some of that athletic ability. I was 34 and although I felt like I still had some years left in me, I had broken my back the year before in ’65, but I continued to drive through that and won the championship. I don’t say that boastfully but that’s the way it was. I felt physically fit to continue on in ’66 and then Ford pulled out and it made me step back and take a look at the lack of security there was in the sport, for one thing. I was also missing out on a lot of things that my children had going on in their lives and I wanted to be a part of it. My daughter (Patti) was six years old. Dale was nine years old. My oldest son Glenn was fifteen. They were at the stages of their lives where they had a lot of things going on. I couldn’t be a part of their lives as long as I was running all over the country driving race cars. That factored into it as well.

Does there really have to be some sort of ulterior motive on Carl's behalf? Sometimes the story is really a non-story.
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Yeah, I was a youngster but as I recall it was shortly after guys like Fireball Roberts and Joe Weatherly were killed that guys like Ned Jarrett, Junior Johnson, and Fred Lorenzen retired relatively young.

Supposedly, after years of driving on mostly slower short (sometimes dirt) tracks these guys gave it up upon the advent of the super speedways.

Granted, Lorenzen returned to racing several years after he first retired but he never won a another race.

At least that's how I remember it . . .
 
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