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Owner points are really team points
Mar
16
BRISTOL, Tenn. – Odds and ends while watching the Bristol Motor Speedway infield come to life on an overcast Sunday morning ...
• NASCAR officials will continue to allow teams within the same organization to swap owner points like they were shocks or tires or sway bars, and I’m not exactly sure how I feel about that.
It seems to me that if a particular team earns points, whether those points are labeled “owner” or “driver,” those points belong to that “team.” The owner points that Kurt Busch earned in 2007 while driving the Penske Racing No. 2 Dodge belong to THAT team. Not the No. 77 of rookie Sam Hornish Jr.
Swap drivers as often as you like, but it seems to me that the owner points ought to be attached to the car.
• I’m surprised that teams outside the top 35 in owner points haven’t started using two drivers each weekend. One who can run the ragged edge for a lap or two, and a second who can keep a car out of the fence during a 500-mile race. Sure, a driver change would send your car to the back on race day, but getting in the show is goal No. 1.
Might not be as far-fetched as it sounds.
• Dale Jarrett, the 1999 Cup champion, makes his 668th and final start today in a points race. Few drivers have earned as much respect for their actions on and off the track as the 51-year-old second-generation racer.
• NASCAR officials will continue to allow teams within the same organization to swap owner points like they were shocks or tires or sway bars, and I’m not exactly sure how I feel about that.
It seems to me that if a particular team earns points, whether those points are labeled “owner” or “driver,” those points belong to that “team.” The owner points that Kurt Busch earned in 2007 while driving the Penske Racing No. 2 Dodge belong to THAT team. Not the No. 77 of rookie Sam Hornish Jr.
Swap drivers as often as you like, but it seems to me that the owner points ought to be attached to the car.
• I’m surprised that teams outside the top 35 in owner points haven’t started using two drivers each weekend. One who can run the ragged edge for a lap or two, and a second who can keep a car out of the fence during a 500-mile race. Sure, a driver change would send your car to the back on race day, but getting in the show is goal No. 1.
Might not be as far-fetched as it sounds.
• Dale Jarrett, the 1999 Cup champion, makes his 668th and final start today in a points race. Few drivers have earned as much respect for their actions on and off the track as the 51-year-old second-generation racer.
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