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THE WIRE.
SPRINT CUP: English statesman and novelist Benjamin Disraeli classified all deception as "lies, damned lies and statistics."
NASCAR is using statistics-but not necessarily lies-to bolster its argument that the Sprint Cup Series is alive and relatively well. The statistic in question: More than a dozen new teams have registered and had cars approved for 2009.
But how many of these startup teams will still be around after the Daytona 500?
Larry Gunselman and Todd and Geoffrey Bodine own one of them. So do Phil Parsons/Randy Humphrey, Kevin Buckler, Joe Nemechek, Jeremy Mayfield, Carl Long/Dennis Setzer, and Derrike Cope/ Gary Keller. There's a Kelly Bires/Dexter Bean-owned team and another with teenage driver Marc Davis listed as owner. The most stable team seems to be that of former crew chief Tommy Baldwin and driver Scott Riggs.
Only Baldwin, Nemechek, Gunselman/the Bodines and Parsons/Humphrey say they are in for the long haul. Beyond the Daytona 500, ...
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