| | | | | | | | |  | | | | Hooray for Tony Stewart for not being a part of the new established status quo. Like it or not, NASCAR has a real problem on its hands with only a few car owners owning all the cars. Can you say CART? How did that disaster work out for everyone?
We need more owners and we need more free enterprise. Call me crazy, but didn’t everyone see this coming when Gibbs first went to Toyota? Certainly it will all shake out in the wash on just how much help Chevrolet is offering in support. Both of Stewart’s championships came in GM products. His open wheel teams are still Chevrolet. It just makes sense.
Stewart himself is still very much the marketing draw. This is not new territory. Alan Kulwicki owned his own team and won a championship. Sure it was hard, but it isn’t impossible in today’s environment.
With proper funding, engineering and all the other components, it will work and Stewart is banking on it. The measure of success is the key, as in what does one expect of the whole situation? Sure wins and championships are the obvious benchmarks, but in my mind, being competitive and owning the deal are extremely important.
Everyone has a different vantage point. There are two sides to the coin. If you just want to be a hired gun to drive these cars, retire and take your cash and get out when the time is right and head to the lake, that is one thing. If you want to do this, live it and be a car owner after you get out of the seat, that may be just as rewarding as sipping brews at the lake. I’d sooner be at a race track somewhere!
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