Jim Hunter
Jim Hunter
black doubt
It's a black eye. There's no doubt about that.
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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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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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It was just the fact that ours (fuel use) was so visible; our cars used gas. If you took a typical NFL weekend, with planes criss-crossing the country with teams, one team would use as much or more fuel back and forth across the country than we would in 10 races or so.
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About 40 percent of our fans are what you would call avid. Others are more casual with some interest. But a lot of them want to place a bet on their favorite team or driver. We think it adds interest and the sports books have gotten very creative in the wagers they offer.
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It's a traffic ticket as far as we know.
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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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Anytime you have a race with the kind of pressures that are on people in this type of environment, you're going to have some raised tempers,
contract involved longer
They are no longer involved in the contract negotiations,
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The gaming industry is very attractive sponsor and we hope it grows.
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The gas used in racing wouldn't be useable for normal everyday use. Also, it's insignificant when compared to the amount of consumption on highways by passenger cars.
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The drivers and the teams need to work things out. We understand that this is a high-emotion sport. It's pretty clear we're going to take this out of the drivers' hands and put it into our hands.
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I think you're going to see some pretty stiff penalties coming out of this, probably by Tuesday at the earliest.
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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.