Will the Big Domino Fall this Week?
by Charlie Turner
I'm Charlie Turner co-host of the syndicated, mostly NASCAR radio show On Pit Row. Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. Oh yeah, Steve is an idiot.
June 28, 2008 12:56 pm CDT 4 CommentsIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
How good would a team of Smoke and the Rocket be? Will Tony Stewartfans have to endure the trauma of - Oh no, not again - changing numbers, as Junior fans did this year? Tony Stewart driving the #66 Office Depot Chevrolet? According to those closest to the silly season contenders, those are some of the questions we may just get to answers to in the coming days. Semi-regular, ON PIT ROW contributor Lee Spencer of Fox Sports has a few of sponsor names to mix in with the driver speculation….
Stewart is currently 11th in the point standings — 500 points behind teammate and leader Kyle Busch and closer to the bubble than he and crew chief Greg Zipadelli care to be. J.D. Gibbs insisted last Sunday that nothing has changed with Stewart’s status at Joe Gibbs Racing although there are reports that Office Depot and Old Spice will join the driver in his next venture — and rumors that Burger King and Jack Daniels could also be coming aboard.
Tom Jensen at Speed has this ….
One way or another, it is likely Stewart will be out at JGR, either next year or in 2010, and almost certainly with a Chevy team. If he goes to Haas-CNC, he’ll likely take another front-line driver with him, either Martin Truex Jr. or Ryan Newman.
I have a feeling that Tony’s next big press conference will be a good one.Photo credit: BethAnne Heisler - ON PIT ROW
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I’ll add some more to this… if it’s Newman in the team car, the number will be 39. The 70 doesn’t scream “winner” and it’s a number he used before - quite successfully - in the Busch Series. I myself think Truex is headed to Penske.
[...] very well dictate how the remaining dominoes fall in NASCAR’s Silly Season, as drivers like Ryan Newman are reportedly holding out to see how this one plays out. The story there is that Haas CNC could [...]
[...] a major player, as without Stewart on their immediate lineup, the likelihood of landing a name like Ryan Newman or Martin Truex Jr. in this upcoming offseason is slim to [...]
I have to agree that it would be the 39 for Newman. I had not even thought of that.
But I have my reservations about him following Stewart. I don’t know what it is. They don’t really seem like buddies or anything. And Newman will be basically going to a new (new in age) team instead of going to an established team.
Hmmm…..I had really hoped to see Newman go to RCR. Doesn’t look like that will happen. Oh well.
Newman was interviewed a couple of weeks ago and in general asked about Stewart. All Newman would reply with was “lets just say I know more than you”. I thought that was weird at the time…….until the the reports started coming out of Newman following Tony.