The seat license is a way for owners to have income no matter if the team sucks or not. Bean counters....lol
NASCAR CHARTER TEAMS
Started by racer111, Feb 14 2016 02:38 PM
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#81
Posted 25 February 2016 - 04:11 PM
#82
Posted 25 February 2016 - 11:04 PM
The charter system will discourage new teams from trying to enter NASCAR...just another nail in their coffin.
#83
Posted 26 February 2016 - 07:26 PM
The charter system will discourage new teams from trying to enter NASCAR...just another nail in their coffin.
I totally agree with this. It would be silly for a new team to try and qualify for every race IF there's at least 40 other cars entered. In the past, if your team did well enough to stay in the top 35 in points you were guaranteed to make the next race. That was EVERYONE'S incentive. Now, there is no incentive. It's a crapshoot every race, all year for a new team.
And if I understand the charter system correctly, even the worst teams that have a charter are guaranteed them for 3 years. So anyone without a charter is virtually screwed for the next 3 years no matter how well they do (even win the championship). Unless I read their "new system" wrong.
#84
Posted 26 February 2016 - 08:33 PM
Only 39 cars on the Atlanta entry list. so if there are no post entries, everyone who is there is "in"!! No mater how bad they may be.
Walt
#85
Posted 26 February 2016 - 08:51 PM
In the race just run there were 31 of the 40 cars still on the lead lap when the checkered fell. The first Daytona 500, also a "photo finish", started 59 cars and 31st place was 41 laps down!! Only Lee Petty and Johnny Beauchamp completed the full 200 laps as third place finisher Charlie Griffith was a lap down. Tenth place was seven laps down!! NASCAR could never sell that product today!!! And BTW, Glenn Wood,the senior member of the Wood Brothers team, finished 34th sitting in the pits with clutch problems with only 149 laps run. He was driving the Wood Brothers # 21, a 1958 Ford at the time and won $100!! Petty got $19,050 for that first 500 win, less than some big Sprint Car and Late Model races on dirt pay today. Of course we all know how inflation has changed all that!! You could buy a gallon of gas for 25c back then!! And maybe 15c for a beer at your favorite tavern!!
GOOD RACING TO ALL!!
Walt
#86
Posted 26 February 2016 - 10:43 PM
Nine years - here's some info I found...I linked the entire article at the bottom...I still contend that the individuals wanting to start a new NASCAR Sprint team under the new system will be few and far between.
What does the charter entail?
It's a franchising system. Of sorts. (Almost) anyone can still form a Cup Series team and attempt to compete in the sport. But the 36 charter teams now have a guaranteed starting spot in every race for the next nine years as well as a greater share of the revenue pie (which is quite large, given that NASCAR is in the midst of a 10-year, $4.4 billion TV contract).
How could a team get a charter?
It had to run a full season for the past three years. While most of the powerhouse teams have charters, not all of them do.
Who doesn't have a charter?
Most notably, the No. 41 car of Kurt Busch at Stewart-Haas Racing and the No. 19 car of Carl Edwards at Joe Gibbs Racing. The Wood Brothers don't have a charter either, but more on that in a bit.
What do SHR and JGR do for those two teams?
They buy a charter. Michael Waltrip Racing got two charters because its now-defunct Nos. 15 and 55 cars ran the full season from 2013-2015. Chip Ganassi Racing co-owner Rob Kauffman, formerly a partner at MWR, retains the rights to MWR's two charters. He's going to sell a charter to SHR and a charter to JGR.
How much is Kauffman selling his charters for?
He declined to give a specific number, but said it was in the "single digit" millions.
Here’s a good article on the charter system.
http://sports.yahoo....-150808913.html
#87
Posted 27 February 2016 - 06:24 AM
Ole Mikie Waltrip. His flap jaw bullshit finally caught up to him and everybody saw what was behind his curtain. TRD dumped his ass when he was found to be cheating. It went downhill from there. His Co owner, the money man, got the hell away from him also. Hey mikie, maybe ya put on some britches with 1 suspendor and ya'll can get a spot on that tv shoe called moonshiners. Shit, mikie has teeth, won't work.
#88
Posted 27 February 2016 - 08:22 AM
He's one of the obnoxious people I've ever seen on tv ... How does he have a job ???
#90
Posted 28 February 2016 - 06:44 AM
Yea. For some reason Dale Sr. Saw something. Was it the sponsorship that came with him, was it he and jr. Had a good relationship. Or was he cheaper to put in the drivers seat. He's a guy that takes center stage because of his, in my opion, Gomer pile actions. Unfortunately tracks like Daytona and Talladega take, in order, a car that gets through the air best, horsepower, handling and then toss a driver in the seat and go. Just look at history and see the one and done guys. His brother was done after he left junior Johnson too.
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