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General Motors not sure it will field cars for Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing
By Bob Pockrass - Associate Editor
Friday, November 14, 2008
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.”
Mentioned Drivers: Juan Pablo Montoya
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| 1 | Jimmie Johnson | 6492 |
| 2 | Mark Martin | -108 |
| 3 | Jeff Gordon | -169 |
| 4 | Kurt Busch | -211 |
| 5 | Tony Stewart | -285 |
| 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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1 response to "General Motors not sure it will field cars for Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing ".
Pat Draper said:
Nov 15, 2008 at 10:11 AMSeems Nascar is getting to be a GM company. Tony going to GM and now Earnhardt-Ganassi wanting to go GM. Seems to me only Toyota is the only company that is not having a problem right now. Don't understand why GM would even want to take on any other teams at this time. I think right now Gibbs and MWR are sitting in the best spots. And good for them.
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