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Posted on Thursday, May 20th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
Is coorporate ownership of teams good for NASCAR?
We saw it start with Red Bull racing. Then Roush joned up with Fenway, Evernham with Gillette, and DEI with Ginn Enterprises. This was a sport that was spawned from the working class, and grew with the hard work of families like the Pettys and the Woods. Everyone looked out for each other and took care of each other.
Now we are seeing drivers like Marlin out of the job. Even though he was not leading laps each weekend, and hasn’t won a race in years, he still had a following and a fan base. This is a trend that we will continue to see as more and more coorporate owners come in. Other sports have unions that protect the players from greedy owners, but NASCAR drivers can’t join a union.
Does anyone see something good that can come from the “fat cats” comming on board?
Really the first corporate owner ship could be the somewhat success of Carl Kiekhaefer in ‘55 and ‘56.He had corporate sponsor ship with Mercury Boat Motors and Chrysler.
Then between ‘77 and ‘83 J.D.Stacy used his cooperate influence in his ownership of multiple teams.
NASCAR saw what happened with the corporate ownership and the influence in the sport and managed to redirect and eventually eliminate the influence.
But with the importance of the sponsor dollar today the corporate influence is coming in again and is taking a new approach in spreading out to multiple teams.However some of the corporations that gain the title of “official sponsor of NASCAR” gets too much power and can have the reverse effect and lose sponsorship dollars.
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