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yes..................and he qualified good...............
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"Better To Be Judged By Twelve Than Carried By Six"
" Only Those Who Will Risk Going Too Far....Can Possibly Find Out How Far One Can Go "...T.S. Elliot....
Yep. It was announced right after the Daytona 500.
"It was actually fun, because you're back fully driving again in these trucks. Ninety percent of the tracks we go to in the IRL, you're flat-out. I was having to lift off the corners some here." - Buddy Rice
I saw a blurb in today's Dallas Morning News that Bill Davis has canned Villenueve and replaced him with Mike Skinner.
Izzit true?
I don't know if canned is the right word. According to Davis he needs to bring in Skinner and then Benson because they both have some sponsorship to bring. Or else the team will have to shut down.
From Nascar.com
"[Villeneuve] has all the tools in the world to be successful down here, we just have to have money to do it on," Davis said. "The sponsorship dollars have just not come -- they haven't been there and they're not there. We've got some little [sponsorship] deals for these other guys that can get us along for a short period of time.
"I promise you, if [Villeneuve] called tomorrow and had a sponsor, we'd be all set to go."
IRL 2009: "Cars you can't see, driven by drivers you have never heard of, on a network you don't get"
"I'd hire your grandmother, if she brought a budget"- Bankrupt Indy Car team owner Tyler Tadevic, to Curt Cavin in December, on the tough standards he looks for when "hiring" driver talent.
"Better To Be Judged By Twelve Than Carried By Six"
" Only Those Who Will Risk Going Too Far....Can Possibly Find Out How Far One Can Go "...T.S. Elliot....
Not so much. Benson and Skinner are Davis' regular Truck drivers, and there's no "buying" there.
As I speculated earlier, there may be a PITA factor with Villeneuve that detracts from any willingness to run him without a sponsor.
"It was actually fun, because you're back fully driving again in these trucks. Ninety percent of the tracks we go to in the IRL, you're flat-out. I was having to lift off the corners some here." - Buddy Rice
"It was actually fun, because you're back fully driving again in these trucks. Ninety percent of the tracks we go to in the IRL, you're flat-out. I was having to lift off the corners some here." - Buddy Rice
Hmm. I'd be surprised if Bill Davis was charging two CTS drivers on his payroll for the privilege of driving a mediocre Cup car. It just doesn't make sense because Skinner and Benson have both been there and done that--Cup racing that is.
No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. - William Faulkner
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