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RUNNING IN CIRCLES; No Magic Number in "09.(NEWS)(Brief article)
Byline: AL PEARCE
Go ahead and run the numbers. Check and double-check. Have a ball. Knock yourself out. Take your time.
But no matter how hard you try, you won't find 43 healthy, fully funded, halfway-competitive cars ready to run the full 36-race Sprint Cup schedule this year. At best, you'll find maybe 36; at worst, about 32. Do the math: five cars from Roush Fenway; four each from Richard Childress, Rick Hendrick and Robert Yates/Hall of Fame; three each from Joe Gibbs, Petty Motor Sports, Roger Penske and Michael Waltrip; two each from Earnhardt-Ganassi, Red Bull and Stewart-Haas, plus owner-driver Robby Gordon.
This is a big deal to some fans. After all, NASCAR has had 43-car fields for 395 of its last 396 races, starting with the 1998 Daytona 500. (The exception was 42 cars at New Hampshire for 2001's rescheduled Thanksgiving weekend race.) There hasn't been a Cup race with fewer than 40 cars since 1996, but ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) BOB HERTZEL, Staff Writer September 27, 1995 700+ words
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