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6 Mar 2007, 07:57 (Ref:1859561) | #351 | ||
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In Busch terms, they'd have to have 2nd highest budget behind Harvick Motorsports. Wood Brothers? Not so much.
But on a Nextel scale, Ganassi are nobodies, technically speaking. And WoodBrothers are nobody nobodies from nowheresville in Nobodyland. Afaik and all that. No, in all seriousness, they Woodbrothers have a well established track record of securing young talent and having it taken off them by bigger teams. They're small, but competitive. |
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6 Mar 2007, 09:16 (Ref:1859612) | #353 | ||
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By nobodies, I mean they don't have a 4/5 car team, with massive title sponsors for each car, plus tonnes of merchandising income (Well, untill recently.)
And Wood brothers, while they were indy500 winners, and go way back, havn't got the sive (Even with Roush affiliation) to match Roush, RCR, DEI etc at the moment. |
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6 Mar 2007, 09:50 (Ref:1859645) | #354 | ||
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Since I'm a sucker for numbers, here are some NEXTEL Cup benchmarks/statistics by Stewart in his first year that we can compare Montoya to as the season goes on: Misc benchmarks/stats: First top-5 start: 1st race, Daytona (started 2nd)/4th race, Atlanta (started 3rd) - mentioned both since Daytona is a r/p track First pole: 8th race, at Martinsville First top-10 finish: 5th race, Darlington (finished 6th) First top-5 finish: 9th race, Talladega (finished 5th) First victory: 25th race, Richmond Road course numbers: Sonoma: started 2nd, finished 15th the Glen: started 4th, finished 6th Average r/c start: 3.0 Average r/c finish: 10.5 Short track (less than 1 mile) numbers: Best short track start: 1st (2 times), Martinsville & Bristol Best short track finish: 1st, Richmond Average s/t start: 12.5 Average s/t finish: 16.2 Intermediate track (1+ miles) numbers: Best intermediate track start: 3rd (2 times), Atlanta & Dover Best intermediate track finish: 1st (2 times), Phoenix & Homestead Average i/t start: 13.8 Average i/t finish: 9.5 Superspeedway (2 miles and up, unrestricted) numbers: Best superspeedway start: 7th, Fontana Best superspeedway finish: 3rd, Michigan Average s/s start: 17.8 Average s/s finish: 5.5 Restrictor plate (Daytona & Talladega) numbers: Best restrictor plate start: 2nd, Daytona Best restrictor plate finish: 5th, Talladega Average r/p start: 5.3 Average r/p finish: 11.3 In 1999 the schedule featured 34 races. There were 2 road course races, 4 restrictor plate races, 6 short track races, 6 superspeedway races and 16 intermediate track races. In 2007 the schedule features 36 races. There are 2 road course races, 4 restrictor plate races, 6 short track races, 7 superspeedway races and 17 intermediate track races. Yes, I'm a nerd. So shoot me |
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6 Mar 2007, 17:26 (Ref:1859931) | #355 | |
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Yeah, JPM will be lucky to get near Stewarts debut year, which was extremely impressive to say the least.
It'll be fun watching him try though and he doesn't necessarily have to get too close to those numbers to be judged a successful convert! |
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6 Mar 2007, 17:49 (Ref:1859955) | #356 | ||
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Adding to knowlesy's numbers for Tony Stewart's 1999 Nascar Cup rookie year:
Wins - 3 Poles - 2 Top 10 - 21 Top 5 - 12 Hendricks and Roush both have approx. 500 employees each working for them. Richard Childress has about 300 employees. |
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6 Mar 2007, 21:46 (Ref:1860113) | #357 | ||
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7 Mar 2007, 00:28 (Ref:1860232) | #358 | |
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Alright, I supplied them and made rusty pose as the geek.
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7 Mar 2007, 03:43 (Ref:1860299) | #359 | ||
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another good drive by ambrose - top 6 car definitely. will take 8th after spinning out
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6th in points, atm, by the by.
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