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Economy negatively affecting NASCAR
Don???t try to tell Richard Childress Racing that the economic malaise is adversely affecting sponsorship in NASCAR. Childress not only added sponsors Caterpillar and General Mills for 2009, but it turned away UPS because the team was out of inventory on its Sprint Cup cars. NASCAR???s own research says new or increased sponsorship spending in 2009 will surpass $100 million, backing up its claims that the sport has maintained its strength in a sluggish economy. By comparison, NASCAR teams generated a little more than $90 million in new or increased spending in 2008 and $96 million in 2007. But below the surface of NASCAR's megateams such as Childress, the sport's smaller, less-competitive outfits are scrambling to replace sponsors that have defected to the bigger teams. Caterpillar left Bill Davis Racing and General Mills exited Petty Enterprises; neither team has found a replacement. That's the way of life in NASCAR these days as the gap between the haves and have-nots grows into a chasm, one that threatens to swallow the smaller teams if they can't find sponsorship during tough times.
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The economy is affecting EVERYONE !! The fans can't afford to go to the races and the owners can't seem to keep the cars with sponsers... Hopefully after the election and we get 'Howdy Duty" out of office the economy will pick up!!!
Ohio-#88 fan
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Buck up Walmart....use all that money you saved by screwing your employees and not providing benefits. I know a Dept Supervisor that was told he reached his peak and will never get another raise....excuse me but the cost of living has increased by 6%....gas alone 38%...food 12%.
I am in a bad mood....geez
jackman....!
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Jack - you said it right, I agree about Walmart,,they
don't give a damn about anyone.
SLY 1
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Think I will point that out daily until they give their Nascar customer base a sponsorship....lol
jackman....!
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In this economy it's difficult to even make your trailer payments, let alone buy tickets to NASCAR events. LOL!
Dapper Dave
Tampa , FL
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Let's ALL boycott Walmart!!!
Ohio-#88 fan
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Of course the mega teams aren't having problems. It's the small teams that are getting the shaft because of the economic downturn
IamRightYouAreWrong
Florence , SC
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Follow the money. The big get bigger. 12 cars in the Chase and only 4 teams represented.
This is the end of Nascar as we know it. Too Bad
JKINDELRAY
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We could bring them to their knees.......we will get our beer and stryo coolers at Target before races....ha!
jackman....!
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jackman I love your avatar , seems that you are operating out of the dark side of the moon today. LOL
JKINDELRAY
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I guess the grand experiment of paridy didn't work. Wasn't "The Chase", the COT, the 4-team rule, and so on, suppose to help with cost and make everything even? NASCAR today is so artificial, I've found other things to do. While I agree the economy has created some problems, it just comes at a good time for Brian F. so he can blame all the problems of NASCAR on the economy.
Turfman
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Have a drink Jackman, have a drink calm your nerves. You can't fight this crazy world, just learn to laugh at it.
Hammered_everynight
Las Vegas, NV
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NASCAR had to see this coming...they are more dependant than any sport when it comes to outside fund sources.
RCR Fan
Coeur D Alene, ID
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Wow, Guess you guys are finally catching on. All this free trade shi% is only benefitting the CEO's and owners of company's. Reagan's trickle down theory won't work either as all the jobs it is suppose to trickle down to are gone. I have boycotted Walmart since it's inception. [Since it opened]. We the people are in trouble with these out of touch leaders
joefordnproud
Romulus, MI
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I'd rather order what I need online and wait,,, before I go to Wall mart.
Jackman, "Dark side of the Room" ?
-The FLOAT-
Chilly, TX
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Probably Hammered has the remedy.........joefordproud-we lose 100k jobs a month. I wish Perot was running again.
I am on the dark side of the moon out of respect of Mr Wright (Pink Floyd's keyboardist) who died this week.
Walmart must die, (I cant afford to boycott though)
jackman....!
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Perot said it best. when these free trade agreements pass that great sucking sound you hear will be all the manufacturing jobs leaving our country.
joefordnproud
Romulus, MI
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I actually voted for Ross...even though he is from Bush's state lol
How does it go....the chicken has come home to roost or something like that?
Those CEOs that bankrupted institutions over hundred years old...should go to jail. Fanny May my arse.
jackman....!
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I think we should pick on Bush not Busch. Busch might have big ears but Bush has the " what me worry" look.
JKINDELRAY
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Alfred E Nueman for pres
jackman....!
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