Comments on: Harris: Success Is In The Details http://www.racintoday.com/archives/12705 Go With The Pros Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:34:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Marybeth http://www.racintoday.com/archives/12705/comment-page-1#comment-10337 Marybeth Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:45:33 +0000 http://www.racintoday.com/?p=12705#comment-10337 Mike, "The big question for the Hendrick team is how to get fan favorite Earnhardt up to speed after yet another mediocre year. Driving basically the same equipment as his teammates, and with the same resources available, Junior failed to win a race and missed the 12-man Chase for the second time in three years, finishing a disappointing 25th in the points." I do not see why next year should be any better as long as he is still at HMS...? Jr. is too talented to repeat another year like last, but only if he goes somewhere else. RH has said 3 or 4 times before that he is going to "fix" Jr.'s cars. Last spring Nascar Now started reporting that Tony Jr. was making Jr.’s car with 2007 DEI spec cars. When he was removed, RH said that he was going to ‘fix’ Jr.’s cars. I believed him. During the week the crew chiefs were switched, Nascar Now reported that since Jr.’s cars sent to Dover were the old T. Jr. cars and that HMS sent a truck with 2 of the newer HMS chassis to switch out. Those cars never made it to Dover. Instead they made a big deal out of the ‘brains’ at HMS were working on Jr.’s car…the OLD chassis cars. Carol Einarsson on 12/3/09 said “Biggest Disappointment - Rick Hendrick’s unwillingness to do what it takes to get Junior in the same equipment that Jimmie Johnson is in. Some have grumbled certain accusations that at first left me wondering, but I’ve since come on board 100% to believe - he doesn’t care if Junior wins or not because the sponsor dollars and souvenir revenues are there regardless. And really, you’re Rick Hendrick and you can make history with a four-in-a-row champ, or spend your company resources on a guy who remains popular whether he wins or not — what do you do? “ Today Carol said: "Racejournalonline.com Carol Einarsson 12/15/09 "CHEERS to Rick Hendrick no longer being a 50% partner in JR Motorsports. This part of the Danica story nearly flew under the radar, but now that Kelley and Tony, Jr. have bought ownership interest in the company, it's one less tie that will have to be broken later when Junior moves on to a team that.....wants to help him......succeed." In 2007 in F1, Alonso moved to McLaren. It became apparent by summer that the role FA had envisioned for himself, the 1st driver, when he signed the contract, was different from the one Ron Dennis saw, 2nd to Hamilton. RD realized that this is not what FA had signed the contract for and that he was not being fair to FA and was able to man-up and gentleman enough, fair enough, to let FA go after only 1 year on his contract. Hopefully RH can rise to the same standard. Marybeth Mike,
“The big question for the Hendrick team is how to get fan favorite Earnhardt up to speed after yet another mediocre year. Driving basically the same equipment as his teammates, and with the same resources available, Junior failed to win a race and missed the 12-man Chase for the second time in three years, finishing a disappointing 25th in the points.”

I do not see why next year should be any better as long as he is still at HMS…? Jr. is too talented to repeat another year like last, but only if he goes somewhere else. RH has said 3 or 4 times before that he is going to “fix” Jr.’s cars.
Last spring Nascar Now started reporting that Tony Jr. was making Jr.’s car with 2007 DEI spec cars. When he was removed, RH said that he was going to ‘fix’ Jr.’s cars. I believed him. During the week the crew chiefs were switched, Nascar Now reported that since Jr.’s cars sent to Dover were the old T. Jr. cars and that HMS sent a truck with 2 of the newer HMS chassis to switch out. Those cars never made it to Dover. Instead they made a big deal out of the ‘brains’ at HMS were working on Jr.’s car…the OLD chassis cars.
Carol Einarsson on 12/3/09 said “Biggest Disappointment – Rick Hendrick’s unwillingness to do what it takes to get Junior in the same equipment that Jimmie Johnson is in. Some have grumbled certain accusations that at first left me wondering, but I’ve since come on board 100% to believe – he doesn’t care if Junior wins or not because the sponsor dollars and souvenir revenues are there regardless. And really, you’re Rick Hendrick and you can make history with a four-in-a-row champ, or spend your company resources on a guy who remains popular whether he wins or not — what do you do? “
Today Carol said: “Racejournalonline.com Carol Einarsson 12/15/09
“CHEERS to Rick Hendrick no longer being a 50% partner in JR Motorsports. This part of the Danica story nearly flew under the radar, but now that Kelley and Tony, Jr. have bought ownership interest in the company, it’s one less tie that will have to be broken later when Junior moves on to a team that…..wants to help him……succeed.”
In 2007 in F1, Alonso moved to McLaren. It became apparent by summer that the role FA had envisioned for himself, the 1st driver, when he signed the contract, was different from the one Ron Dennis saw, 2nd to Hamilton. RD realized that this is not what FA had signed the contract for and that he was not being fair to FA and was able to man-up and gentleman enough, fair enough, to let FA go after only 1 year on his contract. Hopefully RH can rise to the same standard.
Marybeth

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