Kurt Busch Fired From Penske

Guess this doesn't surprise me.

http://www.thatsracin.com/2011/12/04/80040/penske-racing-fires-kurt...

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Permalink Reply by Vlad Rogers on December 6, 2011 at 11:58am

Joe Gibbs kept little Busch in the car for 1 reason... Winning trumps all!!!! I stand by my original post

Permalink Reply by Matt Gruber on December 6, 2011 at 11:59am

Game on, my friend. I'll see you at Denny's. :)

Permalink Reply by Rob Hoban on December 6, 2011 at 12:21pm

We want to go to Mendy's.

While I don't think that this will happen....what if Kurt teamed up with Robby? Would everyone:

a) Embrace Kurt as a teammate because he has racing talent and feel bad for bashing him
b) Go along and just not like the partnership
c) stop visiting the Planet, stop following Robby on Twitter, unfriend anything related to Robby on Facebook and delete all of you cookies from the computer and toss some as well in the process

Personally I have to go with option "A". Although Robby left RCR to have fun and not be bossed around anymore. Look where it got him. On the brightside though, Robby is far from the most hated man in NASCAR anymore.

Permalink Reply by 7gason7 on December 6, 2011 at 11:59am

No way will that happen I was just being a smart ass. Putting him in the 20 with kyle in the 18 would be like crossing the streams in Ghostbusters.. That would be bad (not the good bad but the bad bad)

Permalink Reply by Matt Gruber on December 6, 2011 at 12:05pm

They hate each other's guts, which is the one thing they both have in common with NASCAR fans.

Permalink Reply by Kathy Kubara on December 6, 2011 at 12:23pm

and the ugly

Permalink Reply by WJM on December 6, 2011 at 11:44am

Permalink Reply by TOG on December 6, 2011 at 12:07pm

that's so wrong...lmao...

Permalink Reply by Kathy Kubara on December 6, 2011 at 12:24pm

Oh man, that is hysterical

Permalink Reply by Jimmy Wright on December 6, 2011 at 7:12pm

At least if they occupy Nascar, they won't be able to occupy 5th ave. While I certainly respect their right to protest and voice their opinions, their shouting and chanting was distracting to some of our employees, including myself.

Permalink Reply by Jeff Shelton on December 6, 2011 at 12:13pm

People tend to forgive and forget fairly quickly, Look at Tiger Wood it like nothing ever happened. Not much will happen in 2012 but business is business for 2013 reguardless of personal differences between drivers. I say he will land in the 31,20 or the 1. Best place to rebuild his image is the 43 with the kings support. Not sure Roush would allow it.

Permalink Reply by Matt Gruber on December 6, 2011 at 1:12pm

31: After what happened with Childress and Kyle and Harvick and Kyle and Harvick and Kurt, I would say no way.

20: See above posts. No way.

1: You think the biggest asshole in the sport is going to replace one of the most marketable drivers in the sport? McMurray is a sponsor and reporter's dream. Kurt is their nightmare. And how many Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 wins does Kurt have again? Yeah, Kurt has a title, and that might as well have been 50 years ago.

Winning trumps everything except ... MONEY. There's no money in it for the 31, 20 or 1. Do you think sponsors are going to start calling the owners of the teams the sponsor and say 'Hey! Fire that guy we have now that wins a couple of races a year and represents us well and hire that prick who also wins one or two races a year but is an asshole to everyone he meets!'?

The Tiger example would only work if the NASCAR end of the analogy were Dale Jr. You can't compare Tiger and Kurt Busch. No one watches NASCAR to see Busch, while the ratings for golf without Tiger went into the toilet.

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