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End of The Road for B Lab
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End of The Road for B Lab -
08-31-2009
, 04:25 PM
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http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/cup/08/31/edarnell.replaces.b labonte.halloffame/index.html If Bobby Labonte doesn't start at 25.Atlanta, it will end the 8th longest streak of Consecutive Starts at 567. BL also has a 204 race Winless Streak since '03. He is 45 years old. |
Ask.com ask Yates to be let out of part of their sponsorship
deal, and the replacement sponsor wants Darnell? Has Labonte
privately told Yates he wants to retire, and Yates is auditioning
a replacement for next year?
If Labonte wanted to get a ride I'm sure he could - he has the
past champions provisional, and all the guys who've won the
championship more recently are way up in the points, so he's
effectively guaranteed to start.
John
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"Crusader" <cru... (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote innews:7g2ptmF2nab32U1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net: http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/cup/08/31/edarnell.replaces.b labonte.halloffame/index.html If Bobby Labonte doesn't start at 25.Atlanta, it will end the 8th longest streak of Consecutive Starts at 567. *BL also has a 204 race Winless Streak since '03. He is 45 years old. Saw that, and I can't figure out what's going on there. *Did Ask.com ask Yates to be let out of part of their sponsorship deal, and the replacement sponsor wants Darnell? *Has Labonte privately told Yates he wants to retire, and Yates is auditioning a replacement for next year? If Labonte wanted to get a ride I'm sure he could - he has the past champions provisional, and all the guys who've won the championship more recently are way up in the points, so he's effectively guaranteed to start. John |
Sprint Cup driver and likely will not be affiliated with Yates Racing
next year, team co-owner Tom Garfinkel said Monday. The organization
signed Ask.com as a sponsor and Bobby Labonte as a driver in January
for the 2009 season and then landed a deal with Yates Racing for Yates
to field the cars. Seven of the final 12 races were unsponsored, and
Yates Racing has opted to put Erik Darnell in the #96 Sprint Cup car
instead of Labonte. Garfinkel, in a phone interview, said his
organization is still in discussions with Ask.com for next season but
doesn't anticipate the Yates Racing relationship to continue. The
organization is looking for other teams to partner with and is in
discussions with other sponsors as well, Garfinkel said.
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Hall of Fame Racing would like to keep Bobby Labonte as its NASCAR Sprint Cup driver and likely will not be affiliated with Yates Racing next year, team co-owner Tom Garfinkel said Monday. The organization signed Ask.com as a sponsor and Bobby Labonte as a driver in January for the 2009 season and then landed a deal with Yates Racing for Yates to field the cars. Seven of the final 12 races were unsponsored, and Yates Racing has opted to put Erik Darnell in the #96 Sprint Cup car instead of Labonte. Garfinkel, in a phone interview, said his organization is still in discussions with Ask.com for next season but doesn't anticipate the Yates Racing relationship to continue. The organization is looking for other teams to partner with and is in discussions with other sponsors as well, Garfinkel said. |
John
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http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/cup/08/31/edarnell.replaces.blabonte.halloffame/index.html If Bobby Labonte doesn't start at 25.Atlanta, it will end the 8th longest streak of Consecutive Starts at 567. BL also has a 204 race Winless Streak since '03. He is 45 years old. -- Crusader The question is what happened to BL that caused the drop in performance so |
Any ideas?
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"Crusader" <cru... (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote in message news:7g2ptmF2nab32U1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net...>http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/cup/08/31/edarnell.replaces... If Bobby Labonte doesn't start at 25.Atlanta, it will end the 8th longest streak of Consecutive Starts at 567. *BL also has a 204 race Winless Streak since '03. He is 45 years old. -- Crusader The question is what happened to BL that caused the drop in performance so quickly. Terry at 45 was still competitive. Any ideas? |
stuff up until the end!
Sandy
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Guess y'all know by now that BL got a ride in the #71, so his consecutive starts of 568 will continue, since he's got the most recent PCP to fall back on. CRU |
entry deadline, Labonte isn't eligible for the PCP (as I recall,
the same thing happened to his brother a while back).
OTOH, Gilliland has had no problem qualifying for races on speed,
so I think Labonte has a high likelyhood of continueing his
streak.
John
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http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/cup/08/31/edarnell.replaces.blabonte.halloffame/index.html If Bobby Labonte doesn't start at 25.Atlanta, it will end the 8th longest streak of Consecutive Starts at 567. BL also has a 204 race Winless Streak since '03. He is 45 years old. -- Crusader idiot |
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