SHR files suit against Nature's Bakery for breach of contract

Danica is nowhere near marketable as she was

she's a 20-25th place finisher.

she hardly gets talked about now
 
aunty dive said:
Are you familiar with the operating statements and cash flow summaries of other private companies generating annual revenues of $1,000,000,000 or more?
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I have no reason to look any private company balance sheets besides mine, public yes. Anyway, I wouldn't believe anyone that was convicted of tax fraud and treated for alcohol abuse.
 
^^ <claps hands in glee>

See Lew? Didn't take long at all. :D
 
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Taco said:
I have no reason to look any private company balance sheets besides mine, public yes. Anyway, I wouldn't believe anyone that was convicted of tax fraud and treated for alcohol abuse.
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The ranks of race car owners past and contain a plethora of liars, cheats, miscreants, racists and on and on and on.
Sometimes, someone is pardoned. :D

So far, he's paying his bills. In this game, that's really all that matters. JMO, of course.
 
Acs said:
SHR has a grand total of ONE car fully funded this season, the 4. Somehow they need to fill 20 races for the 14, 16 for the 41, and now 25 for the 10. No way they remain a four car operation. Sorry Clint, sorry Danica. This team drops a car or two sooner rather than later.
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Reality has an ugly way of slapping one in the face doesn't it? Oh how the mighty (SHR) have fallen!
 
timmyholton said:
Danica is nowhere near marketable as she was

she's a 20-25th place finisher.

she hardly gets talked about now
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True but being the ony femae in the show may give her a bit of an advantage over other bottom 20 drivers in some sponsors eyes. I expect she'll pic up 2 or 3 new sponsors to fund a race or 2 each, Haus will cover for a few. Think she'll be ok this year, next year might be a different story though.
 
I'm probably echoing others same thoughts but I'm not reading thru 4 pages of jibberish.


When NB signed on with SHR, I had serious doubts they would be able to honor their contract, as a pretty small company. What, a year later, here we are.

This isn't about Danica and her lack of performance at all IMO. This is definitely on NB and SHR for not seeing the writing on the wall.
 
I'm pretty sure that SHR's contractual commitment to Danica would be conditional upon the sponsor performing as agreed. I believe that would have been the case in the Go Daddy era and even more likely with Nature's Bakery.

I'm sure SHR has been scrambling to find alternatives at least since the December 19 letter, if not before. The fact that Nature's Bakery was their best available deal after some months of searching... well that says the sponsorship landscape is a tough environment.

Tony and Gene are not going to act in a knee-jerk way, IMO. I wonder what Ford thinks about this saga?
 
LewTheShoe said:
I'm pretty sure that SHR's contractual commitment to Danica would be conditional upon the sponsor performing as agreed. I believe that would have been the case in the Go Daddy era and even more likely with Nature's Bakery.

I'm sure SHR has been scrambling to find alternatives at least since the December 19 letter, if not before. The fact that Nature's Bakery was their best available deal after some months of searching... well that says the sponsorship landscape is a tough environment.

Tony and Gene are not going to act in a knee-jerk way, IMO. I wonder what Ford thinks about this saga?
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Ecoboost decals for everyone!
 
Just FYI, it is widely reported that Gene Haas owns 100% of Haas Automation, so a dollar spent by the company is a dollar Gene doesn't have in his pocket. His decision to personally sponsor the 41 was driven by sporting interests, and he then tried to mitigate the costs by using the 41 in the company marketing activities. It's not the same as having sponsor shortfalls with the 10 or the 14.
 
DUN24 said:
I'm probably echoing others same thoughts but I'm not reading thru 4 pages of jibberish.


When NB signed on with SHR, I had serious doubts they would be able to honor their contract, as a pretty small company. What, a year later, here we are.

This isn't about Danica and her lack of performance at all IMO. This is definitely on NB and SHR for not seeing the writing on the wall.
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As someone about as far removed from the situation as can be it was very easy to see the potential problems and apparently SHR saw them but decided to throw caution to the wind. What I don't understand is that seeing they knew the sponsorship was blowing up 6 months ago why were they not working on a replacement?
 
Skoalbandit33 said:
As someone about as far removed from the situation as can be it was very easy to see the potential problems and apparently SHR saw them but decided to throw caution to the wind. What I don't understand is that seeing they knew the sponsorship was blowing up 6 months ago why were they not working on a replacement?
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How do you know they didn't?! How many companies have a check for 15 million to put on a NASCAR team? Danica was always imo ran because I think with go daddy it was probably a cash cow. Why not run a car that is fully funded plus an extra 5-7 million extra premium for being Danica. But take away that funding and now it's an expense, it's no longer exciting running a 25th place car out of your pocket anymore
 
dont forget SHR is fielding a car in the lower series this yr too
 
Mr Excitement said:
Wouldn't it be cool if they put her in that car for a few races? I just paid the 3 bucks for in-car radio.Can't wait for the Clash and the upcoming season.:D
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OMIGOD! The best!
be sure to post about it here-not sure If I will have the in car this yr
 
DanicaFreak said:
dont forget SHR is fielding a car in the lower series this yr too
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and that is a family deal too. I once worked for a company that the owner had a rich dad who all they had to do was call and say we are 47 grand short this month. He would promptly send the check and the lost money was made up for. The thinking was this all would be temporary and the company was "growing" and that it was only for a while. The problem is the company never learned that it had to make money from its founding. It was started knowing it didn't have to sink or swim. This is a very important thing for a company. The problem in my mind is the company has gene and his money to bail things out. It started with kurt busch being sponsored outright. The thinking there was kurt was good enough to win races and probably more. things change real quick when only one car is fully funded and the rest are looking for more sponsorship. I am still surprised that taking on clint bowyer didn't include also moving over his suite of sponsors. When deals are made like this it normally includes sponsorship too. Instead and I site the example above SHR figured oh we will sort out the details later. Ie gene will figure it out. which begs the question if the company was structured differently this wouldn't have happened in the first place.
 
DP's new website.

http://www.danicapatrick.com/

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code3 dovetails with her love of animals.......expect to see lots of tweets about Dallas and code3
 
aunty dive said:
I see you as a male version of Rita McNeil.

Canada ... 'Murica's hat.
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The bad news about Riita is that she was diagnosed with flesh eating disease but the good news is she has 25 years to live. I think I would rather take after Greg Godovitz or maybe Gordon Sinclair or Stompin Tom
 
aunty dive said:
Mrs. Aunty is a lifelong Canucks supporter.

We watched the finals in different rooms. Not a joke.
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Once the Canucks can get out from underneath the twins, stop allowing Benning to make trades and sign free agents and get new owners they should be ok
 
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