With the September 11, 2001 10th anniversary this Sunday several NASCAR teams plan tribute paint schemes to honor the victims of 9/11 on their cars at Richmond.
Stewart-Haas has released Tony Stewart's paint scheme...
Earnhardt-Ganassi's Jamie McMurray's car...
JGR's sponsor on the 18 car, Mars Candies, is mimicing an earlier paint scheme on Ken Schrader's number 36 car that was raced in September, 2001:
Here's JGR's sponsorless paint scheme seen today at Richmond...
Several other teams and sponsors will also have tribute paint schemes. Look for the Roush-Fenway's Bayne, Edwards and Stenhouse Nationwide car paint schemes, all sponsored by Fastenall and the JRM GoDaddy number 7 Nationwide car driven by Danica Patrick.
After 10 long years our nation continues to be hounded by fears of terrorism...
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KHI to RCR
Interesting news just released: Kevin Harvick, Incorporated, is joining forces with Richard Childress Racing in the Nationwide Series and the Harvicks are getting out of truck racing completely.
KHI's equipment will be sold off, the racing team's 80,000 Sq. Ft. shop building in Kernersville, NC will be put on the market and 140 KHI employees were told Wednesday how many weeks they have left with the company.
In Kevin's words; “When RCR decided not to run the Nationwide cars, the cars were different. As the cars have migrated back to the same chassis, a lot of the same tires, a lot of the same components, it makes more sense from a performance standpoint to put them back at RCR to utilize the pieces. To make the things that need to be right (with the cars) in order to keep up with the Cup teams (fielding Nationwide cars) you have to be in a Cup shop. That’s just the unfortunate part about where we are with the process and things that come with the Nationwide cars. From a performance standpoint, I feel we will be better with the Cup people and technology in the (RCR) shop. … The Truck program, it’s just a tough model business wise and we’ve scrimped and scraped and got the sponsorship and things that you need and GM has been a great supporter of everything that we’ve done, but from a business standpoint sometimes you have to make the decisions on what you want to do and for us it just didn’t make sense.’’
Here's hoping KHI's 140 employees will be absorbed into RCR...
And this wonderful economy dishes out another hit.
Anyone else remember Kev laughing at Kyle's truck team going through some hard times last year? Kev commented that he had offered his business model to Kyle for free, but Kyle was too hardheaded to accept it. Hmmm. He who laughs last, and all that...
ReplyDeleteI heard that RCR is buying all KHI's trucks too.
The truck series is going to be an ARCA level series in the next year or so. Second hand equipment, and rent a racers will abound.
I certainly remember Kyle hunting for sponsors but I wasn't aware of Harvick pulling that crap... Doesn't surprise me though.
ReplyDeleteI heard a rendition today on ESPN about KHI that in so many words blamed Kevin not winning a Cup title on the fact he was worrying about his other racing interests. Ricky Craven said the way is now cleared for Kevin to win what should rightfully be his... This isn't the first time Craven's stepped out there and said something I don't agree with.
Thanks Gene!
Those paint schemes are amazing! It will be fantastic to see them on the track Saturday night. Good stuff!
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ReplyDeleteI was kind of disappointed in the Roush-Fenway Nationwide cars last night they all were, with the exception of the car numbers and drivers, exactly alike and it wasn't obvious they were paying tribute to anyone other than Fastenall.
At one point early in the race Kyle was out front followed closely by all three Fastenall Fords kinda like the fox and the hounds!
I think there's a secondary reason behind the KHI selloff- Delana is nesting. She said in an interview several years ago that she and Kevin had made a conscious decision not to have kids as long as they were involved in KHI. In fact, she went on to say that KHI WAS their kid. I have no doubt that this was first and foremost a financial decision; however, don't be surprised if there's a little Harvick running around in a year or two.
ReplyDeleteHey SB!
ReplyDeleteI'll bet that's a problem child! LOL!
Seriously, I heard something about that being a possibility... Good timing huh?