Part Time Cup Teams Races Revealed

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#21 Bill Elliott will drive in the following races in 2010

Feb. 14, Daytona 500
March 7. Atlanta
April 18, Texas
May 30, Charlotte
June 13, Michigan
July 10, Chicago
July 25, Indy
Aug 15, Michigan
Sept. 5, Atlanta
Nov. 21, Homestead

Bill will also drive the #6 car for the Bud Shootout

- #32 Reed Sorenson will drive in the following races for the 2010 season

Daytona - 2/14
Atlanta - 3/6
Chicago - 7/10
Indy - 7/25
Charlotte - 10/16

- #51 Michael Waltrip has confirmed the following races

Daytona - 2/14
Talladega - 4/25
Daytona - 7/3
Talladega - 10/31

- #13 Max Papis has confirmed he will run atleast 20 races possibly more as a start and park.

- #38 will run full time with 3 differant drivers. This is a 3rd car for Front Row Motorsports.

Robert Richardson
Daytona - 2/14
Talladega - 4/25
Daytona - 7/3

John Andretti
Charlotte - 5/30

David Gilliland
Rest of the season
 
wilson89 said:
- #13 Max Papis has confirmed he will run atleast 20 races possibly more as a start and park.
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are those max's words or somebody's interpretation? hell of a thing to admit from someone i thought would rather race somewhere else competitively instead of start and park.
 
SlowNeasy said:
are those max's words or somebody's interpretation? hell of a thing to admit from someone i thought would rather race somewhere else competitively instead of start and park.
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Heres a recent interview I got from Jayski that Max did

About NASCAR and 2009: "For me, NASCAR has been so far the most challenging competition I've ever had. When you look at the average position of qualifying, what other people like Sam Hornish did in the beginning, we are on pace. We did a pretty good job. We finished in the top-20 in Talladega, we had a top-10-finish on the roadcourses. So I would say, it was a season of ups and downs."

About the pressure of qualifying: "It is not difficult, it is extremely difficult. One of the most difficult things I've done so far. It is not only, that I have such a little time to learn the racetrack. When I run five laps in practice, before we are going to qualifying-trim, that means, you are two or three minutes on the racetrack. And that's it. And then you have the pressure to perform on one lap only. With very different track conditions and different griplevels to what you have practiced. You go out on the track, you go through 3 and 4 as hard as you can, and if you don't make it, you go home."
About 2010 and the Daytona 500: "We gonna run the Daytona 500 this year and I'm very excited about that. We plan to run 20 Cup-Races, 8 Truck-Races and hopefully a little bit more."

About Start-and-Park: "At the beginning of the season, the team plans to put me on a start-and-park-situation. We will show up on the races, that are not scheduled, try to qualify, but we have a limited budget, so we are not gonna be able to race the race. That will give me the tracktime, that I don't have. So we will use some of this races as tests, that we get to know the tracks better and get more prepared."

About P43 in the ownerpoints: "That is the other the reason, why we are doing this. If there is a rainout and we have enough attempts, than we do not go home."

About European sponsorship: "My goal is opening the door for European companies to NASCAR. I really want to do that. I want to let people know more and more, how good it is for sponsors and how much exposure you can get."
 
What a joke, how are you supposed to get seat time start and parking?
He seems like a decent racer enough to get a decent ride.
 
i agree with garf. start and park gets you nowhere as far as getting a decent ride or improving a teams chance of finding decent sponsors. yes sir mister sponsor, our team can successfully run 5 laps at the back of the field and quit. now hand over the $$$. yeah right.
 
SlowNeasy said:
start and park gets you nowhere as far as getting a decent ride or improving a teams chance of finding decent sponsors.
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Agreed. I'm thinking it just gives them enough cash to keep the doors open and giving Na$car a full field.

I thought I read somewhere that Na$car guarantees a full field for every race in the contract with the network(s). Otherwise they pay a penalty.
If the penalty is greater than the pay out for the start and parkers it makes financial sense for Na$car but not so great racing for us.
 
SST55 said:
Agreed. I'm thinking it just gives them enough cash to keep the doors open and giving Na$car a full field.

I thought I read somewhere that Na$car guarantees a full field for every race in the contract with the network(s). Otherwise they pay a penalty.
If the penalty is greater than the pay out for the start and parkers it makes financial sense for Na$car but not so great racing for us.
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Wasn't this brought up a time back? IIRC, there isn't any such language in the contracts, but I could be wrong. I'm like most, I don't like the start and parkers, but I do understand why they are doing it. This comes down to the top 35 rule, something that I think has run its course.
 
Something that has been bounced around for years is franchising the teams which would put a stop to part time teams and there wouldn't be a need to start and park. Also,it would allow some of those old time teams that have been around for years to not just go wither away on the vine and let some new billionaire come in and steal the spotlight.
 
SST55 said:
Agreed. I'm thinking it just gives them enough cash to keep the doors open and giving Na$car a full field.
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40 -- Joe Nemechek 1342 -5310 30 0 0 0 0 2,411,240

$2.4 mil pretty good for a S&Per last year.and that was only 30 races.
 
Pisses me off that Robert Richardson Jr and Kevin Conway are guaranteed starting spots in the Daytona 500 because their teams bought points while better drivers have to race their way in.

NASCAR needs to dump this top 35 rule and put it back the way it was.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Pisses me off that Robert Richardson Jr and Kevin Conway are guaranteed starting spots in the Daytona 500 because their teams bought points while better drivers have to race their way in.

NASCAR needs to dump this top 35 rule and put it back the way it was.
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They probably traded some Extenze for top 35 points.
 
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