Too many spondors per team?

when we have a top 35 B.S. rules to "protect" the sponsors "investments" yet we have cars that have as many as three diffrent paint jobs in a season, carl edwards with office depot/aflac/claritan, ky bush with mars/interstate batteries, j gordon having pepsi/dupont, dale jr with mt dew and the national gaurd, and the list goes on and on,





yet we have guys busting their buts trying to get into the show on shoe string budgets with no sponsors, like jon andretti and a few others,





do you feel nascar is doing too much to protect the sponsor at expense of the little guy race teams?

Too many spondors per team?
It takes big bucks these days to be a primary sponsor. It takes big bucks these days to hire a "good" driver. It takes big bucks these days and the people in the stands want to see the big name drivers when they go to the track. I want to see big name drivers when I watch on t.v. So how do you fix this? "Fastest 43 in qualifying race"? What if Jeff Gordon crashes in qualifying and doesn't make the race? What if Jimmie Johnson blows out a tire during the same qualifying session? And let's suppose Tony Stewart's engine blows up and Junior's car is just "off". Just how many of those fans in the stands and the ones at home are going to watch a race minus the 24, 48, 20, and 88? One whole heck of a lot more than the ones who didn't watch or attend because the 45 wasn't on the track!


But back to your question: yes, I do think NASCAR does too much to protect the sponsor. But how do you get the genie back in the bottle?
Reply:Unfortunately Dude, It was said 2 maybe, 3 years ago that nascar would eventually have only 10 to 11 owners because of the miti-car teams and the single car Teams will eventually become extinct. I think that sucks myself because the COT was brought in to help alleviate that problem, and of course... it hasn't helped at all because the multi-car teams are " Dumping " A ton of money in R %26amp; D and the 1, 2 car teams cant keep up PERIOD!


GO # 9 Kasey Kahne
Reply:Something needs to be done!!!!-- It is a Shame that Yates cant get a Sponsor and Yates has been in Nascar for Decades!!!!!!!!
Reply:Yes.





'nuff said.
Reply:Nascar could do anything and its not going to change the haves and have nots. The teams that do things right will be successful and draw sponsors and the other teams will not. These things are cyclical. Remember in 2004, they could hardly find 43 cars to show up for races at the beginning of the year. The economy will eventually turn around.
Reply:NASCAR doesn't get the sponsors for cars, the teams do. Same for IRL and F1, WoO, etc.





Yates obviously hasn't been successful pitching for a sponsor for #28 %26amp; #38. It takes 15-20 million/year PER team to be in the top twenty teams.
Reply:There's a saying that says: "If you want a good insight into how the economy is doing, see who's sponsoring Nascar".


With that said, the economy sucks right now when it takes 2 or 3 sponsors to field 1 car. Sponsorship money is high dollar and many corporations simply can't afford or are afraid to shell money out for an entire season! So you get these trends of shared sponsorships.





I never liked the 35 rule but I'm not sure of a better way to do it and still give the little guys a shot at the show. Maybe it should be the top 25 or something instead!?!



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