Magicshoes12, pay attention...
Before this season, Coby was considered one of the best drivers without a ride. He was a journeyman driver. May have had a previous full time season, I think it was with Chace. Why has he been without a ride? Three reasons: Funding, funding, and less funding. Now that Coby is running with the means of two blended teams, he is taking the position that he has a choice to run. Amazing what funding can do, eh? Now he's making it sound like he's a fat cat and he decides what he is going to do. They don't decide to go... they look in the checkbook and if there's money, they go. There's no decision, who does he think he's kidding? Do you really think he'd say he doesn't feel like racing today, he'd rather lounge around the pool instead? Go ahead Doug, choose to hang out in the pool instead of racing. See if you ever get another ride. Prior to this season, funding decided what he did and didn't do. And funding decides and enables what he does today. If the blended teams fall apart, he isn't driving. It isn't a decision. This is a full season for Coby and it is tenuous at that due to the blending of two teams. Prior to this season, he would probably say racing was too expensive and the purses didn't pay enough so he could afford to run. So he is ecstatic to be running what he has, and certainly would find only good to say about the situation. He has been looking for a full time ride for years and now has it, even though it is really two part-time rides. After all the ups and downs Coby has had, and time without a ride, he is living a dream right now and is in no position to say anything but love. First and foremost, he is building his brand equity to improve his chances of getting a ride next season. If Coby doesn't march to NASCAR's song, it could get difficult and expensive for his present blended teams, or future team. He can't afford that.
When Coby is fully funding his own operation at the levels of the present top Tour teams, then he can say he decides to race or lounge in his pool. Until then, he has obligations to the teams that are putting him in a ride, or he is harming his chances of ever driving again if he should decide to lounge in his pool instead of drive. He is going to jump at any opportunity to get behind a wheel, no decision there.
And it helps to never disagree with NASCAR no matter what, for they can make things just miserable and expensive. Someone like Christopher has significant brand equity and can tweak NASCAR once in awhile. Someone like Coby has zero brand equity and will be annihilated by NASCAR and nobody will even notice.
And Coby should care, very much, what the rules are.
But what about the talent and owners that aren't running? Don King came back after announcing he was leaving, Art Barry is running MRS, Fiore is gone, Pasteryak, Chace, ... These are modified staples, along with others that don't run anymore. They had a choice and exercised it. In an interview several years ago, Mike Stefanik said the thing that alarms him is the lack of owners willing to run. They can run, but decided not to run anymore. Why did they leave?
Now the reporter should ask drivers like Christopher, Stefanik, Flemke, etc., guys that have been around a long time. Coby, Preece, and Bonsignore are newbies and are just ecstatic to be driving. They don't have the wisdom of Christopher, Stefanik, Flemke, etc. to see where things have come from and the trend.
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Magicshoes12
Great Quote from Doug Coby.......As far as the purse reduction at Loudon, N.H., Saturday’s winner Doug Coby said despite the cuts, the purse, including the winner’s share, is still the best of the 14 races on the tour, and drivers should take heed of that.
“Nobody has to pay Modified drivers or a team to go to a track. That’s an important thing to remember,” Coby said. “People can say everybody should win this much money at Loudon … or that the Stafford 125 should pay more than it does, (but) the bottom line is that everyone has a choice as to whether they walk into the pits that day.
“I have a choice, as the point leader, that if I don’t agree with what they’re doing at Loudon, I don’t have to show up. I can go and sit in my pool all day. I will be there because I want to race in the series and I want to represent my team and my family and go out there and have a good time. I don’t care what their rules are. They could run a 35-lap feature at Loudon and I will still go out there and run it.”
Rest of the Article....
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/sport...#axzz1yoU33cUu
Last edited by Acadia; 06-25-2012 at 02:25 PM.
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