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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Interesting!!! Another Ford team might just do some to even things up with all those chebbie teams!!!!! Heard some rumors about Penske switching brands last fall, guess it took awhile to get the deal all put together!!! Now you have to wonder who's going to jump up and grab all the Dodge money????

The guy that's going to be ticked at Ford about this is the One Eyed Jack. Up to now he's been used to getting the full measure of Ford corporate support, and they pretty much dictated that all the engines & chassis engineering flowed through Rousch to the teams. Now you bring in Penske who's a full service shop, everything from chassis and Ilmor Engineering for design, developing and building engines. I'll bet there will be some heated discussions at Jack's house with this announcement.

Dodge may just pull the plug on NASCAR - there's not another full service guy out there to step in and take Penske's place, and it costs a lot more to piecemeal it. They may be done.

I just wonder if Dodge will back out??? I feel the compition is good for everyone.

Originally Posted by cffisher

I just wonder if Dodge will back out??? I feel the compition is good for everyone.

My bet is that Sergio will see that without Penske's power he's an also ran and he will elect to spend his sponsor money in other places where he can be a bigger player. Just my $0.02.

With new cars being developed and NASCAR promising they will have improved manufacturer identification to the fans, I don't really see Dodge staying out of it completely... Maybe Ray Evernham is ready to come back to NASCAR???

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

With new cars being developed and NASCAR promising they will have improved manufacturer identification to the fans, I don't really see Dodge staying out of it completely... Maybe Ray Evernham is ready to come back to NASCAR???

I don't see Evernham being the "all in" guy like Penske and Rousch, but maybe I'm wrong. I see Sergio Marchionne looking at the overall bang for the buck, and opting out. Time will tell.....

There have been rumors of another foreign nameplate entering the NA$CAR ranks. Since Chrysler is partially/mostly owned by Fiat......OMG

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I could see that with 500hp under the hood