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J Burton to miss 22 races?

 

by Fanball Staff - Fanball.com

Thursday, December 11, 2003

 

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According to sources at Roush Racing, the #99 team has secured sponsorship for only 14 races in 2004. If no additional sponsorship can be secured, these may be the only races he runs this year.

 

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It is hard to believe that a team of this caliber is having such difficulty in securing primary sponsorship.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would bet that Rousch would have him run a couple more without a sponsor too, but he would still miss quite a few races.

SilveradoWV Senior Enthusiast

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That sounds like some kind of tactic to get a Sponsor. Didnt Biffle run alot of races with an unsponsored car or RoushRacing Sponsored car?? I know a Roush Truck ran alot of the season unsponsored. I doubt he will be missing any races cuz he cant get a sponsor!

Hecktorx Enthusiast

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The crazy part is that Childress wanted him. It's hard to believe that he turned down the 30 car that's going to run a full season. I'll bet if the 99 gets parked, Sauter will be doing so bad in that car, he'll put Burton in the seat.

 

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Elwood Senior Enthusiast

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I have to agree with SilveradoWV, Rousch has a history of running a team with no sponsor if need be. He has the resources to do it for a little while (until he gets a sponsor like he did on the Truck). I figure Burton will run without a sponsor for the races they don't have locked up, unless something changes and they get one.

antig24 Senior Enthusiast

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One thing about the truck deal is that they started the year with a sponser and jack wanted to stay true to his word about running the whole season so they ran them even without a sponser. In the busch series though, they had a sponser for like a 15 race deal on the 16 car, when the sponser didn't want to run the rest of the year, jack shut the team down. I'm curious as to how he will handle the 99's situation.

General Lee 01 Senior Enthusiast

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But, You also have to take into account that there's probably a $500K (at minimum!!)cost difference between running a Cup car and a CTS Truck.

 

I don't think Ol' Jack is gonna put his P-51 Mustang up for sale just so Jeff Burton can run races.

 

 

On the Truck Series note (I know this contradicts the point I'm making above), The #50 Truck ran Half the Season w\out a primary Sponsor. The #99 Truck ran the ENTIRE season w\out a Primary sponsor.

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tfpary Enthusiast

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:thumbs: I don't get it either. That is a top tier team with a sponsor friendly driver, and all the resources in the world. Roush could run the whole year without a sponsor if he so desired, but he isn't dumb. What baffles me is why Biffle has a sponsor and Burton doesn't. Biffle doesn't have the record Burton does, and he is a jerk besides (he actually had the cajones to say that he wasn't getting the same equipment that the big guns were - and he was a rookie!). But then DEI is having a tough time with the #1 car too. These are teams that have a prayer of actually winning, it's not like Cope is driving or something!.

tad

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The problems with getting sponsor is the cost. Its getting so expensive to run these cars that primary sponsors spend upwards of 15mil to get on the car. They need to find a way to do things cheaper or they will price themselves out of existence. Burton is a good driver I would hate to see him not have a ride for the year.

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