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JTG Daugherty Racing needs to re-sign with MWR in Cup; plans to scale back Nationwide effort
By Bob Pockrass - Associate Editor
Saturday, June 27, 2009
LOUDON, N.H. – JTG Daugherty Racing doesn’t have enough sponsorship to continue running Michael McDowell beyond next week’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway, team co-owner Tad Geschickter said Saturday.
The team has sponsorship for Marcos Ambrose for the two Nationwide road-course events later this season but beyond that, Geschickter is not sure how many races the No. 47 car will run over the second half of the season. Tom’s snack company has sponsored the car for much of the first half of the season.
Geschickter, whose team is 16th in the Nationwide owner points, said he has not sent in an entry for the July 10 race at Chicagoland Speedway.
“You need a good bit of money to run competitively in the series,” he said prior to the Nationwide Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. “You could see us run some in the back half [of the season]. We’d like to run them all, but we’re kind of down to miracle time right now. We have about 10 days before we have to make some hard calls.
“We’re still talking to some folks, but I’m not going to venture to bet where it’s going to end up.”
Geschickter said the organization is concentrating on its Sprint Cup effort with driver Ambrose. The team is imbedded with Michael Waltrip Racing as part of a technical alliance, and it has worked well with Ambrose sitting 18th in points in what is his first full season of Cup racing.
Whether that MWR relationship continues remains to be seen.
“As far as what we’re doing next year, we haven’t started discussions with them yet,” Geschickter said. “We’ll have to renegotiate for the next year. … They’ve done a really good job. The secret’s been that we have integrated our people into their shop.”
Geschickter said in addition to the Cup program, he hopes to field a full-time Nationwide team in 2010. The Nationwide program is out of the JTG Daugherty Racing shop, which is in the same building as the Wood Brothers Racing shop.
“We’re really working on hard on putting together the right partnerships for the long-term,” Geschickter said. “Some of those [want to] run a race or two this year. I expect us to be running Nationwide again next year full time based on what we’re working on sponsorship-wise.”
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| 2 | Mark Martin | -108 |
| 3 | Jeff Gordon | -169 |
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| 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya | -289 |
| 7 | Greg Biffle | -321 |
| 8 | Denny Hamlin | -352 |
| 9 | Ryan Newman | -411 |
| 10 | Kasey Kahne | -476 |
| 11 | Carl Edwards | -520 |
| 12 | Brian Vickers | -666 |
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6 responses to "JTG Daugherty Racing needs to re-sign with MWR in Cup; plans to scale back Nationwide effort". Post a Comment.
rspweaver55 said:
Jun 27, 2009 at 10:51 PMPost #1, what is your comment for? This is a story about JTG Daugherty Racing re-signing with MWR. By the way, I hope they do work out something and re-sign with them.
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Jun 27, 2009 at 10:52 PMPost #1, what is your comment for? This is a story about JTG Daugherty Racing re-signing with MWR. By the way, I hope they do work out something and re-sign with them.
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Jun 27, 2009 at 11:53 PMI thought their contract was for more than a year, the way they bolted from Ford so quickly last year to sign with MWR. Didn't Germain Racing sign a similar agreement with MWR last year to prepare cars for the #13 team for ~18 races? From what JTG has shown this year, their switch was for the better. As a Ford team, they were so low on the totem pole that they were getting the short end of the stick. As a Toyota team in Cup that's aligned with the apparent head team for TRD (Gibbs doesn't really work with TRD) they've powered to a Top 20 in points. MWR's steadily improving and so is Ambrose. By next year he might be fighting for a Chase spot.
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Jun 28, 2009 at 12:38 PMits disappointing that Michael McDowell may be out of a ride - he's a talented driver with a lot going for him. I hope that whatever JTG-D does is in the best interest of survival for the entire team including Michael. I also know that with another year of racing under his belt that Marcos will definitely be in the points battle! He just keeps getting better and better.
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Jun 29, 2009 at 9:00 AM"The team is imbedded with Michael Waltrip Racing as part of a technical alliance, and it has worked well with Ambrose sitting 18th in points in what is his first full season of Cup racing."
Report as AbuseHasn't exactly worked out too well for Waltrip however! 32nd in points as a driver, 29th as an owner! I think the owner needs to fire the driver of the #55 and put McDowell in it since MW dumped on him and kicked him out of his ride.
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Jun 29, 2009 at 3:34 PMI hope they do, because Marcos is super talented. Not to mention the fact that his accent rocks! I would have to agree that Michael is by no means a great driver (better than some)but he is awesome on TWIN(Speed channel, 8pm Mondays)! As far as McFlippin is concerned, he is okay in my book. Obviously luck is on his side--proved at Texas!
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