Jim Hunter
Jim Hunter
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One of the things we've done in the past is try to get guys to work things out, understanding that this is a high-emotion sport.
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It's affecting us and the teams like everybody else in America. It's hurting us in the pocketbook. Everybody works off a budget. I've seen comments from team managers who said they're way over budget. When they were making their budgets last November for this season, who would have thought that gas would be $3 a gallon? It's pretty significant considering how much gas we use in our normal course of business.
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We've tried to let them work out their differences among themselves. It hasn't worked. We're going to take the bull by the horns and go forward with this.
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I think we have always tried to let the athletes work this out among themselves, with us sort of getting in the middle and mediating, and I think suspensions for what happened this past weekend, it was discussed and we felt that the points and the fines were enough at that point.
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I'm delighted the work is finally going ahead and a local firm is to do it,
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The drivers and the teams need to work things out. We understand that this is a high-emotion sport. It's pretty clear we're going to take this out of the drivers' hands and put it into our hands.
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We don't want a driver to provide a spark that might make a situation worse. Busch did come to the officials and was reasonably in control of himself.
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It was very disappointing to NASCAR and the entire industry that drivers did not show up for various awards. It shows a lack of respect for the history and tradition of the sport.
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People tend to minimize a Category 1. They need to know this is a different kind of Category 1,
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The song man: that was his name. He knew a lot of songs.
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We have to make sure whatever we do to the cars, that it's scientific and not shade tree. We've thought about this before. I think we'll ratchet up the research and get a lot more input, but I don't think that will happen before the Daytona 500.
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We have to make sure that whatever we do to the cars that it is scientific and not shade tree. We have thought about this before I think we will wrench up the research and get a lot more input but I don't think it will happen before the Daytona 500.
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We're very serious about this. We've got to make sure everybody plays by the same rules.
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We just want to make sure we have a good, safe race. It's really more of a precaution than anything.