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With GM struggling, why would Tony Stewart leave Toyota for a Chevy team? You would think Chevy would look out for Hendrick Motorsports and Richard Childress Racing, maybe Dale Earnhardt Inc. Where would that leave Stewart-Haas? I feel like he may have made a mistake. — Ron Thomas
Ron, you just asked the million-dollar question — or maybe the multi-million-dollar question. The key element of this deal was that Stewart got a 50 percent ownership interest in the team. But how long will it take Stewart and whoever else joins the team to elevate it to contenders? My guess is that Stewart Haas will be much better in 2009 than Haas-CNC Racing is this year, but I still think it’s going to be a three- to five-year time period before they are consistent championship contenders.
I think it would be awesome to see Jeff Gordon more involved as an owner after he retires from racing (although I hope that it is not for at least five more years). I think he and Tony Stewart both would be awesome as owners. They are both great businessmen and would continue to be exciting, dynamic figures in NASCAR — S.B.
I don’t think you have to worry about Jeff Gordon being involved as an owner. He is already
Don't you think it's going a little overboard when NASCAR fines a team both big dollars and big points and suspends key crew members (as they did a few races ago) just because the team's cars were a bit off from the roof template at initial tech inspection? Good grief! It just seems like NASCAR's zeal in COT rules enforcement is causing it to hand out the death penalty for jaywalking, not to mention presumption of guilt. Or is there something here I'm not seeing? — Bob Ward, Puyallup, WA.
Bob: You raise an interesting point. When NASCAR introduced the Car of Tomorrow last season, it told teams that there would be severe penalties for tampering with the bodies of the cars, period. NASCAR came down hard on Hendrick Motorsports and Dale Earnhardt Inc. in 2007 and both Roush Fenway Racing and Haas-CNC Racing earlier this year. By setting that precedent they pretty much became obligated to follow it with DEI at Daytona. I think other teams would have been very angry if NASCAR didn’t punish every offender consistently.
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