JR Motorsports Thinking Cup?

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From Jayski, drivers interviews with Junior-

THE OWNERSHIP THING, WHEN YOU’RE OUT THERE RACING WITH BRAD KESELOWSKI, ARE THERE THINGS THAT GO THROUGH YOUR MIND AND ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT HIM OR ABOUT THE RACE? “Well, I get mad when he messes up and I see him in a wreck or something. But normally I just hope he’s doing what he’s supposed to be doing and running good and having a good night. But his night doesn’t go right or something happens to the car, it’s sort of bums you out a little bit and it’s hard to revert back to concentrating on what you’re trying to do with your car.”
IS THERE ANY CHANCE YOU’LL MOVE UP TO THE CUP LEVEL WITH THAT TEAM ANYTIME? “I used to say no way, no way. But it’s almost as expensive to run in the Nationwide Series. And their going to bring a CoT in and we won’t be able to race in the Nationwide Series with the CoT probably. That’ll just be too expensive to switch all that over.”
WOULD YOU DO IT AS EARLY AS NEXT YEAR? “Yeah, maybe. If the right opportunity comes along with the right sponsorship and driver, we’d love to do it. And it would cost the same amount of money to do that, as it is to run the Nationwide Series. It’s harder to get sponsorships. And the CoT program is going to be too expensive for me to justify creating a whole new program with CoT stuff, so I’d just as soon go into the Cup Series or get out of the Nationwide Series altogether.”
COULD YOU GET MARTIN TRUEX JR. IN THAT CAR? “No. Why would he want to come drive for me? He’s in good stuff now and he’s going to have great opportunities from other people. And I would never do that to him (laughter). For the first year coming out of the box, man we’ll struggle like hell. Come on, man. He’s going to have deals offered to him by these great companies around here and from DEI. I’ll be at the bottom of that list, right there with Haas and a couple of other people (laughter). I don’t know with Tony (Stewart) if he goes over there (Haas), he might be able to talk Martin into it. But I don’t know man. I mean no way would I even do that to Martin, even if he wanted to.”(GM Racing PR)(5-17-2008)
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There's a whole bunch there to talk about. Really good quotes, but what I picked up on was I thought it was supposed to be cheaper in the long run to run the COT. I understand the cost v Nationwide Series sponsorship money, but if you're gonna switch everything over - he'd rather take the plunge into Cup than stick with the Nationwide Series? Interesting.

Also, he mentions Tony & Haas. Tony and Junior are pals; Is the Haas deal done, and it's just a matter of time? Did I miss a press coference? :)
 
see the COT to me also hurts busch teams because they can only build that car to go run nationwide races. They cannot take it and go run camping world east if they are struggling on the nationwide level or something like that you are locked into nationwide and have no choice. If your building something that nobody else has except one other series your shooting yourself in the foot financially because if you cant afford it anymore on the nationwide you cant just back down to another series with the same equipment.
 
basscatcher89 said:
see the COT to me also hurts busch teams because they can only build that car to go run nationwide races. They cannot take it and go run camping world east if they are struggling on the nationwide level or something like that you are locked into nationwide and have no choice. If your building something that nobody else has except one other series your shooting yourself in the foot financially because if you cant afford it anymore on the nationwide you cant just back down to another series with the same equipment.
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good point. But, I also wonder, might we see mega teams in n'wide, with multiple single or 2 car teams combining resources but yet remianing independant and trying to share data and cars like the rousches?
 
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