Why not full time Nationwide next year?

Just thinking out loud.......If Robby can finish in top 5 in Nationwide, maybe that would help get the sponsorship back in 2011 to get back into Sprint.......The money will be back in a couple of years.....

I personally would like to see him team up with Smoke and his team........Seeing Tony and Robby together would be awesome for the sport.......

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Permalink Reply by kevin dinsmore on November 26, 2009 at 3:56pm
then you should have.......that way there would have been 2 left on the lead lap after Ranger took the checkered flag at Veron this year :)
Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on November 28, 2009 at 4:12pm
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Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on November 26, 2009 at 1:15am
Yes it is. And Andrew Ranger has come along quite well since leaving open wheel...I'm surprised Gillette didn't look at him when he seemed so desperate to put a Canadian in Cup....
Permalink Reply by Lance on November 25, 2009 at 8:08am
Yes and Kellogg's is only sponsoring 2 races next year. Hendrick wanted more from them and went the godaddy.com direction.

Andrew Ranger would be good. He can wheel a car and he has sponsorship from Walmart and Tide..who knows if they would step up to the cup level.
Permalink Reply by IndyTim on November 25, 2009 at 9:28am
Kelloggs is the Primary on 2 races and associate on all others......so even mighty Kelloggs (who's profits are incidentally up 43% due to the Cereal Boom in China...seriously) has cut their racing Budget by 90%.....
Permalink Reply by 7 Gordon 7 on November 25, 2009 at 2:13am
You know during Robby's last year at Childress he ran 10-20 races with his own Nationwide car and he did really good. Even won the race at Richmond. I was hoping he would run a full Nationwide season that next year, but he went full bore into Cup. I think it would be a great Idea to run a season or two. Running up front in Nationwide beats running in the back in Cup. I just don't see him doing it. Too bad....
Permalink Reply by Travis F. on November 25, 2009 at 10:52am
Thanks for the info from everyone. I just hate to see Robby not race full time in Sprint. I would rather (not knowing all the cost factors) see him race full time in Nationwide.......
Permalink Reply by Turtle7 on November 25, 2009 at 1:15pm
The only problem with running up front in Nationwide is that it does not pay as much both in winings and sponser dollars as does running in the back 35 in the cup.
Permalink Reply by Kevin Sweeney on November 25, 2009 at 12:30pm
2007 with the motorolla car, we had good finishes almost every time we went out.
Permalink Reply by Rob Hoban on November 25, 2009 at 12:35pm
Just as long as he doesn't go to the Truck series. That's where Cup drivers go to end their career. Ted Musgarve, Todd Bodine, Jonny Benson, Mike Skinner to name a few. Sure it is great to see them go to a lesser series and win, but what are they really accomplishing? It's not like it's easier to get a sponsor for one of those series and the payout is certainly less to go with the lower cost. But once you move a team to the Cup level, going back to the Busch or Truck series is admiting defeat and Cup career suicide. IMO.
Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on November 25, 2009 at 5:49pm
Would prefer to see RG driving for someone else (a good team like Stewart-Haas or EarnhardtGanassi) in Cup. Associate RGM with that team, and establish itself in Nationwide/Trucks (like KHI is associated with RCR, but not running Cup).

We've gone over five full seasons without seeing RG win in NASCAR. All the excuses in the world don't change that.
Permalink Reply by Chris Jamieson on November 28, 2009 at 4:07am
Yes exactly, he should build RGM from the ground up. Taking a shot at the cup series full time was nice but it's just not realistic to be competitive right now in this economy with little sponsorship to go around. Robby missed out on his chance to blossom with Toyota instead of MWR. Build a solid foundation in the trucks/nationwide while driving for another team in the cup series and eventually hopefully when Robby is finished racing he can manage multiple nationwide and cup teams.

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