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[kwhizz]

If I were the Budweiser people I would be Pissed at Bernstein......they paid for his Racing for 20+ years and are ending their sponsorship at the "End" of this year....Yet, he was tooting his Horn about his new sponsor and wearing their hat during Interviews at the Indy Nationals....That's all well and good, but, I feel he should carry the Budweiser Banner and promote them till the End....after all....they Paid for it......

Just my $.02

Ken

[Xplantdad]

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If I were the Budweiser people I would be Pissed at Bernstein......they paid for his Racing for 20+ years and are ending their sponsorship at the "End" of this year....Yet, he was tooting his Horn about his new sponsor and wearing their hat during Interviews at the Indy Nationals....That's all well and good, but, I feel he should carry the Budweiser Banner and promote them till the End....after all....they Paid for it......

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Ken

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Totally agreed here...

Doing what he did is a no-no in marketing. Budweiser should cease all payments to him immediately!

[Kim_Howie]

WHAT IT"S NEVER BEEN DONE IN STOCK CAR RACING!!! Give it a break. Team members have done it for years in that kind of racing. Force did his job.

[Kim_Howie]

Ken, Your right. That's like the rep senator who became a demicrate after he was elected. He should have been thrown out.

[SmallHurst]

And Berstein did nothing that NASCAR teams have not done in the past-- "Silly Season".

IMHO, it was equally poor of Bud to announce that they were dropping Bernstein before mid season. Maybe a heads up to Kenny, but to announce publically is in bad taste. In protest, I have stopped drinking AB products.

[sYc]

No doubt JF took a dive, not by lane choice or getting out of the groove, but at the light. When you go against someone you know is quicker then you, which RH had been all weekend, you do one of two things, either play games at the tree, messing with their head, which JF would not do to a teammate, or as JF should have done had he really wanted to win, cut a great light. You know the one thing the faster will not do is redlight and give the race away, which means they will be a tad slow, thus a chance for a slower car, in this case JF, to make up a few 100ths, but a .209, give me a break.


What I do not get, they can slow these cars down by the tune, such as for a slippery track, so why did not they put a safe tune in RH's car, and a safer (slower) tune in JF's car, let JF take the good lane and run balls out? Yeah..RH could have still lost had he messed up, but that could of happened anyway.

[Xplantdad]

The tech crew for NHRA checked for the "tune" on the car...

This has all been done before...with the Schumacher contingent of cars. Perdregon went about it wrong...

[musclecarjohn]

Multi-car teams and high payouts have ruined this sport...that and the idiotic knee-jerk decision to run 1,000' after Kalitta's untimely death at a track that was probably unsafe when fuelers ran 200mph let alone 330+.

Face it,the NHRA is circling the drain as far as I'm concerned...is it only me that thinks this whole thing was "staged" for TV...totally looked forced to me.

Tony knows what's going on because he was there as a hired gun for Force...this has been going on since day one in all forms of motorsports.

[sYc]

I heard what NHRA said about checking the car, but we all knew JF would not be disqualified. If it were done with the tune, only JF racing and NHRA tech would know, a lot better then what went down Monday.

[ORIGLS6]

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I think John took the dive and I am a huge Force fan.

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I agree, and I've always been a Force fan. Corporate sponsorship being what it is due to our economy, well,.......... JFR has a huge payroll. Getting the AAA car in the chase can't hurt next year's sponsorship prospects.

But the Graham Light decision didn't surprise me a bit either. The NHRA is about $$$$$ and JFR brings them untold revenue from licensing. Had it been the likes of a Tim Wilkerson I think you'd see a different determination. Just my opinion.

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As I re-read this, my feelings may be a bit unclear to some. I've been a JF fan for a long time but I absolutely DO NOT condone what he did Monday. I understand why he did it, but I feel he owes Castrol his BEST effort every time he stages that car, ... just as Robert Hight owes AAA. John shook up the teams to get better performance for the individual teams and their sponsors. That's acceptable, and ethical. What he did in the semis, in my opinion, is not! And I still contend that Graham Light's ruling would have been different if they were dealing with someone of lesser stature than JF.

Politics rears it's ugly head again.