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Rusty Wallace Racing benches Brendan Gaughan's pit crew at Darlington
By Lee Montgomery - Associate Editor
Friday, May 08, 2009
DARLINGTON, S.C. – Rusty Wallace said Friday at Darlington Raceway that his Rusty Wallace Racing Nationwide Series team will sit its pit crew for driver Brendan Gaughan this weekend.
Pitting Gaughan’s No. 62 Chevrolet in Friday night’s Diamond Hill Plywood 200 will be Richard Childress Racing’s No. 33 Sprint Cup pit crew, Wallace said.
“We’ve had so much problems with our team [that] this particular race, Brendan Gaughan’s team, I said, ‘You guys are having so much problems that we’re going to have a timeout for one week. We’re going to have practice for the next two weeks,’” Wallace said. “I lost confidence in what we were getting done.”
The pit crew for RWR’s No. 66 Nationwide team for Steve Wallace remains the same, Rusty Wallace said.
Gaughan is 11th in the Nationwide points standings after nine races.
The Nationwide Series is off next weekend, giving the No. 62 crew time to work on its problems.
“I’ve got to take personal responsibility for that,” Wallace said. “I said, ‘Look, I’m going to make this real simple. I’m not going to try to fix everybody in three days. Let’s get the [RCR crew], stick them in there, and we’ll use the whole off time to [help] ourselves get back in the hunt.' ”
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Melissa b said:
May 8, 2009 at 4:05 PMOuch!! Now there's a way to tell your crew: you're not getting the job done. I guess Rusty was also saying they're lucky they're not getting fired.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportWerner Boehmert said:
May 8, 2009 at 5:59 PMRusty gave them a time out...
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» Confirm Abuse Reportmas chingon said:
May 8, 2009 at 8:56 PMlike my old metal-shop teacher used to say.."You guys are gonna SET" not sit.
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» Confirm Abuse ReportBOB GREGORY said:
May 9, 2009 at 10:21 AMtypical crybaby rusty blame everybody else funny how his kid's crew is fine maybe brendan should take his dad's millions bring it to rcr wouldn't have any issue's then do it now brendasn and cut your losses
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» Confirm Abuse ReportJohn LaFever said:
May 9, 2009 at 1:51 PMBob Gregory, Having trouble reading? Rusty clearly says he takes personal responsibility for the situation. I'm thinking, you must be a hater! You can't seem to take the words that are written and accept them for what they are. I'm thinking Melissa B. has a more accurate take; Rusty is letting them know it can't go on like this (wake up call), but not over-reacting by firing everyone! Sounds like great management to me!
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» Confirm Abuse ReportBOB GREGORY said:
May 9, 2009 at 7:23 PMgreat management? sounds like to he screwed it up he get's a hell of a lot more money from the south point then he ever willl from us fidelis and yet brendan's team is the crappy one i have no trouble reading i can see thru the BS and it sounds like you full of it john
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