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The Unofficial Layoff Count:
Dale Earnhardt Inc -- 120
Ganassi -- 71 (from shutdown of the #40 team in June)
Bill Davis Racing -- 60
Roush Fenway Racing -- 35
Petty Enterprises -- 30
Wood Brothers -- 25
Stewart-Haas -- 16
Hendrick Motorsports -- 12
JTG Daugherty Racing -- 12
Hall of Fame -- Unknown, could come after the weekend
Yates -- Unknown
(as of 11-29-2008)
http://www.jayski.com/cupnews.htm#layoffs
NASCAR Cutting Jobs
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I had heard that FOX, ESPN and NASCAR Media are putting their collective heads together to figure out how to save money. As I have been saying all year, just how many talking heads do we need to explain the action on the track? And apparantly I am not the only one who has noticed this phenomenon...
http://racejournalonline.com/index.cfm?Pagename=column&id=550
http://racejournalonline.com/index.cfm?Pagename=column&id=550
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And on the subject of cost cutting for NASCAR and the teams, as a West Coaster even I realise that it cannot be all that cost effective to have so many trips out West. I say two should do it. A round of Vegas and Phoenix early in the year, and a trip to Sonoma and Cali at night Midseason should do it.
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I had heard that FOX, ESPN and NASCAR Media are putting their collective heads together to figure out how to save money. As I have been saying all year, just how many talking heads do we need to explain the action on the track? And apparantly I am not the only one who has noticed this phenomenon...
http://racejournalonline.com/index.cfm?Pagename=column&id=550
Throw Digger under the bus.
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I had heard that FOX, ESPN and NASCAR Media are putting their collective heads together to figure out how to save money. As I have been saying all year, just how many talking heads do we need to explain the action on the track? And apparantly I am not the only one who has noticed this phenomenon...
http://racejournalonline.com/index.cfm?Pagename=column&id=550
Throw Digger under the bus.
+1, I had forgotten all about that camera angle turned T-shirt turned plush toy.
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I had heard that FOX, ESPN and NASCAR Media are putting their collective heads together to figure out how to save money. As I have been saying all year, just how many talking heads do we need to explain the action on the track? And apparantly I am not the only one who has noticed this phenomenon...
http://racejournalonline.com/index.cfm?Pagename=column&id=550
Throw Digger under the bus.
+1, I had forgotten all about that camera angle turned T-shirt turned plush toy.
+2, lose the tech center's and the infeild studio's and cut the graphics down. Just show us the race. Tey'll save a bunch of cash.
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"Right now Brian France might be the least-envied man in America who's not Pacman Jones' bodyguard. He runs a sports empire entirely dependent on boneheads.
Tone-deaf and dumber than posts, the heads of America's Big Three automakers winged into Washington the other day in their private jets, pleading poverty....
...No one, France included, is ready to publicly entertain trimming starting fields or races yet, but you'd better believe those options have been discussed privately. That's because the economic meltdown has happened at a time when NASCAR was already in a slow decline - a process begun and facilitated by the leaders of the sport themselves.
It was, after all, France and Mike Helton and the rest who hit on the business model of expanding NASCAR's target audience. And it was France and Helton and the rest who pushed for the Car of Tomorrow, introducing that expensive, manpower-dependent project at a time when economic realities were already forcing teams to dial back.
In theory, expanding the target audience was smart and visionary; in practice, it served only to drive off the core fan who made NASCAR so phenomenally successful to begin with. And the Car of Tomorrow project not only strained resources at a time when resources were already strained enough but advanced the perception of NASCAR as a glorified spec series - a sort of higher-profile IROC...
...Now Brian France's fate hangs on boneheads. And nothing's inconceivable."
http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/8846990
I think he's being way too fair to Brian France. I'd throw him right in with the rest of the boneheads.
Tone-deaf and dumber than posts, the heads of America's Big Three automakers winged into Washington the other day in their private jets, pleading poverty....
...No one, France included, is ready to publicly entertain trimming starting fields or races yet, but you'd better believe those options have been discussed privately. That's because the economic meltdown has happened at a time when NASCAR was already in a slow decline - a process begun and facilitated by the leaders of the sport themselves.
It was, after all, France and Mike Helton and the rest who hit on the business model of expanding NASCAR's target audience. And it was France and Helton and the rest who pushed for the Car of Tomorrow, introducing that expensive, manpower-dependent project at a time when economic realities were already forcing teams to dial back.
In theory, expanding the target audience was smart and visionary; in practice, it served only to drive off the core fan who made NASCAR so phenomenally successful to begin with. And the Car of Tomorrow project not only strained resources at a time when resources were already strained enough but advanced the perception of NASCAR as a glorified spec series - a sort of higher-profile IROC...
...Now Brian France's fate hangs on boneheads. And nothing's inconceivable."
http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/8846990
I think he's being way too fair to Brian France. I'd throw him right in with the rest of the boneheads.
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NASCAR itself it just way too dependent on companies, and in a time like this, the sport will suffer. It has more to do with the financial crisis rather than the COT, or driving off the core fan base.
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"Right now Brian France might be the least-envied man in America who's not Pacman Jones' bodyguard. He runs a sports empire entirely dependent on boneheads.
Tone-deaf and dumber than posts, the heads of America's Big Three automakers winged into Washington the other day in their private jets, pleading poverty....
...No one, France included, is ready to publicly entertain trimming starting fields or races yet, but you'd better believe those options have been discussed privately. That's because the economic meltdown has happened at a time when NASCAR was already in a slow decline - a process begun and facilitated by the leaders of the sport themselves.
It was, after all, France and Mike Helton and the rest who hit on the business model of expanding NASCAR's target audience. And it was France and Helton and the rest who pushed for the Car of Tomorrow, introducing that expensive, manpower-dependent project at a time when economic realities were already forcing teams to dial back.
In theory, expanding the target audience was smart and visionary; in practice, it served only to drive off the core fan who made NASCAR so phenomenally successful to begin with. And the Car of Tomorrow project not only strained resources at a time when resources were already strained enough but advanced the perception of NASCAR as a glorified spec series - a sort of higher-profile IROC...
...Now Brian France's fate hangs on boneheads. And nothing's inconceivable."
http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/8846990
I think he's being way too fair to Brian France. I'd throw him right in with the rest of the boneheads.
Amen to that. I still find it amazing that the big-3 (France, Helton and Darby) act as if nothing is wrong with the product they are bringing to the table. Let's face it, 08 was over-hyped, underachieving, dull and boring attempts at racing. IMHO, Helton and Darby are out of touch with what their customers want. They really need to go..
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In all the years I've been a part of and a spectator of racing, I cannot remember as much bad feeling generated by a promoter in racing. For the past 50 years, I've seen some real bonehead moves by promoters and teams alike, but I can't remember ever seeing a time when teams had to worry if the promoter was going to STEAL their sponsor. None of the moves made by NASCAR over the past 4 years in and of themselves was as STUPID and detrimental as that. Not the COT, not the chase, not even ignoring culpability in the tire debacle. When the National promoter stoops to stealing sponsorship dollars from it's own race teams, you have to question the viability of the entire series. Hard times dictates hard work and digging to find more small dollar sponsors. We used to have regular meetings with the local promoter who HELPED teams find sponsors, NOT BACK DOOR THEM FROM US. There needs to be a change at the top of NASCAR, and soon, or 2009 may be the end of the product. AA JMHO
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