General Motors not sure it will field cars for Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing
HOMESTEAD, Fla. – General Motors has not been told whether the new Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing team will field Chevrolets next season, according to Pat Suhy, GM’s NASCAR manager.
Dale Earnhardt Inc., a four-car Chevrolet team, and Chip Ganassi Racing, a two-car Dodge team, announced Wednesday their plans to merge for the 2009 season. They did not announce a manufacturer, but Dodge teams seem resigned to the probability that the new four-car organization will race Chevrolets next season.
“Until they tell us what it’s going to be, I’m not confident of anything,” Suhy said Friday at Homestead-Miami Speedway, site of Sunday’s Ford 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup season finale. “They need to make a decision based on their own needs and what kind of support they can get and what they think is in their best interests.”
Suhy would not comment on how much support DEI gets and whether it is based on a four-car team.
Neither DEI nor Ganassi has won a race nor has a team in the NASCAR Chase For The Sprint Cup this year.
“They’re two teams that have had their own struggles,” Suhy said. “They’re independent businesses. Them getting together is just a continuation of all the things we’ve seen.
“It’s two fairly big [organizations]. I hope that they can take the best of each organization and make one more successful organization out of the thing.”
