The Death Spiral Continues….NASCAR on Fox
According to Sports Media Watch, FOX has its lowest rated NASCAR season ever.
A year of declines has concluded with FOX drawing its lowest average rating for NASCAR since the net began airing races in ’01.
Excluding the rain delayed Coca Cola 600, 12 NASCAR races averaged a 5.1/11 rating and 8.5 million viewers on FOX during the 2009 season, down 11% in ratings and 9% in viewers from a …
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Survival of the Fittest? – NASCAR Teams Look to Consolidation
… to the sponsorship crisis for race teams. NASCAR needs to immediately revise the distribution of TV revenues to fairly compensate the race teams – or face the reality that the life expectancy of many NASCAR race teams are limited at best and more teams will continue to close their doors.
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Meshkin lives out dream as NASCAR owner
… interested in talking to him,” said McReynolds, Dale Earnhardt’s former crew chief and a TV racing analyst. “Since I stepped off the pit box at the end of 2000, I’ve had 30 or 40 people come at me.
“I always had the feeling that they were looking for someone with a magic wand in their back pocket to wave over the race team and try to fix it.
“Even though I won 23 Cup races as a crew chief, I lost 447. So, obviously, I don’t have a magic wand.”
Finally, Meshkin sold …
Toyota and Chevy Truck teams announced for 2004
… Innovative Motorsports.
Darrell Waltrip, a three-time Winston Cup champion who is now a TV analyst, has hired David Reutimann as his driver and will get behind the wheel of a second entry for two or three events in 2004.
The new Bang Racing team, co-owned by Larry McReynolds, former Cup crew chief and now also a TV analyst, and Alex Meshkin, has hired 1995 truck series champion Mike Skinner and is expected to run a second entry for new series champion Travis Kvapil.
Davis also …
Toyota launches four-team Craftsman entry
… the late Dale Earnhardt’s longtime crew chief, are best known for their repartee as Fox TV analysts.
They will be respectively known as team owner and management. Waltrip will drive in three Craftsman races this season but will mostly oversee David Reutimann’s progress in Darrell Waltrip Racing’s No. 17 Tundra.
McReynolds will supervise Kvapil and Skinner as Bang! Racing’s vice president, a prospect he didn’t consider until examining Toyota’s business plan last year. …
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