89 ordspråk av Jim Hunter
Jim Hunter
It's affecting us and the teams like everybody else in America. It's hurting us in the pocketbook. Everybody works off a budget. I've seen comments from team managers who said they're way over budget. When they were making their budgets last November for this season, who would have thought that gas would be $3 a gallon? It's pretty significant considering how much gas we use in our normal course of business.
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It's become a problem, and we know it's a problem, but any solution we come up with to date we have to make sure we don't make the cars any less safe than more safe.
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It's become a problem. We know it's a problem. Any solution that we look for, we have to make sure we don't make the cars less safe instead of more safe. That's the No. 1 thing ... We've got to make sure that whatever we do to cars that it's scientific and not shade tree. We've thought about this before. I think we'll ratchet up the research and get a lot more input, but I don't think it will happen before the Daytona 500.
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It's not fair, ... We've known there was a loophole there, but to police it with all the testing that has been done, we'd have to have people all over the country at every track on any given day.
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It's pretty complicated, but it was also obviously designed. It wasn't a mistake.
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It's simply a matter of whether or not they'll be in the hunt for the championship. And there's a chance they won't be, but you can bet the farm they'll be favorites to win every race in the Chase.
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Let me put it this way,
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Nobody's asked about ties, quite frankly. We've said all along if they're in that top 10, whether it's in a position or in a tie for one of those top 10 positions, they earn a spot in the Chase.
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Oh, we call all tell stories about Bill. He wasn't ornery, but he was a musician.
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One of the things we've done in the past is try to get guys to work things out, understanding that this is a high-emotion sport.
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Part of the magic of NASCAR and NASCAR racing is the accessibility,
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Part of the magic of NASCAR and NASCAR racing is the accessibility.
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People tend to minimize a Category 1. They need to know this is a different kind of Category 1,
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several violations in the trunk area of the car.
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Support for the Elite Divisions has been on the downswing for a number of years. This change will allow NASCAR to focus more attention on the Grand National and Modified touring divisions.
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