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John Roberts "And this is where this sport is heading obviously right now. Pretty soon we will have maybe 11, 12, owners owning four teams everywhere. Do we still need to keep an eye on this? You are teammates at the shop all week long, once you get to the racetrack you have a sponsor and you have a driver and you are racing for your owner and no owner wants to necessarily see his team huggy- kissy on the racetrack."

Liz Clark (Washington Post) "I certainly hope not, that is not the spirit of the sport. I understand business today, multi car teams, economy of scale. That's the way you succeed. But that's not what fans pay to see they don't pay to see collaboration or orchestration. They pay to see individuality, strong individuality."

Kyle Petty "It will be a sad day when this turns into a train sport. We will be seeing the Hendrick train and Roush train and Gibbs train and everybody will just line up and go. That's going to be a sad day for this sport, it has never been that way, and we have always had multi car teams back to Junior Johnson, back to the very beginning when Raymond Parks had a multi car team. You go all the way back to the beginning of the sport, that is the way it has been and always, teammates have run into each other, wrecked each other, cussed each other pointed the finger at each other because they want to beat each other worse. I want to beat my teammate worse than someone else because you know you are driving the same equipment and there is that little bit of extra poking at you a little bit. If junior out runs him, he is out running him in stuff that they have. And if Jeff out runs junior, he is out running him and it is the same stuff."

John Roberts "There are a lot of drivers that have said this, and mike skinner sticks out in my mind. He was the one that said. I would wreck my own mother to win one of these races. Quite frankly, it doesn't matter because it is so hard to win one of these races.

SOURCE: SPEED/Edited by Michael Pomeroy and Steve Keller

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