Kurt Busch Fired from Penske?

Does anyone know if it has been confermed David Ragon<S? will be driving the 22 car in 2012 ?

Manic depressive wrote:

<quoted text>Well #1 he admitted to flying out every weekend to race with JZ!!!!#2 He admitted all the time on TSL he loved eating raw fish.#3 Show me a man that has Scottish blood that does not LOVE!!! eatting P%%%%!!!#4 And more emportantly how do U think a man in his 40s keeps a girl in her 20s HAPPY !!!!!!
I do know one thing Carolyn listening to TSL every week for as long as it was on. Tony did nothing but slam girls if they were FAT 7 not pretty enough!! The remarks were just down right mean & cruel.( I had to record the show because my old man refused to listen to the way he talked and critizied women.)The sad part about women on here . I know people that R married to mates that R nothing to look at & they R the most loving & happy couples U could ever meet .In closing unless U women on here are Super Models!!! Tony Stewart would not look at U or give U the time of day .I really do not understand how women on here can stick up for a man that has such a low opinion of women!! I personly think he needs to be taken to the wood shed & be bitch slapped .( by the way Carolyn I know your next question will be !!) No I am not & never will be a SUPER MODEL.hope this came out ok can not find my chesaters I hope the dam dog didnt chew them up :):)

Agree....

Wow, how can talk of CC go to who Tony is dating. So much gets read into a comment it is unbelieveable and some talk about him as if they were the maid in his house they know what color of underwear he is weraing. yet most of us are truely interested in how he runs who is heading up the team and most of all how much better i could run it than he does! LOL.
I know how he kept JZ happy, he sponsered a damn race car for her, DUH! He brought his rowdy friends over to play on the weekend. He has fame and money and is gone 4 to 5 days out of the week! Wow after years of marriage doesn't sound to bad@ LOL

Manic depressive wrote:

Does anyone know if it has been confermed David Ragon<S? will be driving the 22 car in 2012 ?

Not yet but he has talked with Penske and is scheduled to talk with Shell/Penzoil. Still doesn't mean he will get the job, heard Penske is looking for a bigger name driver.

R

LTE14 wrote:

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Not yet but he has talked with Penske and is scheduled to talk with Shell/Penzoil. Still doesn't mean he will get the job, heard Penske is looking for a bigger name driver.

What big name driver is avalible? Isn't Kurt the only big name driver that is looking for a ride ?

T

interstate wrote:

Wow, how can talk of CC go to who Tony is dating. So much gets read into a comment it is unbelieveable and some talk about him as if they were the maid in his house they know what color of underwear he is weraing. yet most of us are truely interested in how he runs who is heading up the team and most of all how much better i could run it than he does! LOL.
I know how he kept JZ happy, he sponsered a damn race car for her, DUH! He brought his rowdy friends over to play on the weekend. He has fame and money and is gone 4 to 5 days out of the week! Wow after years of marriage doesn't sound to bad@ LOL

Tony doesn't wear underwear. LOL

After reading some of the post and wondering why JGR would let Ford go i decided to go check the stats for ford! he may not be big name but he and denny had a great run together.
As crew Chief of the number 11 car Mike Ford won 17 races and had championship finishes of 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 8th, 9th, and 12th. Ford and Hamlin never missed the chase in the 6 years paired together. On Dec 6th, 2011 Joe Gibbs Racing released Ford.
That Joe fella is sure a heartless SOB. LOL it is all for the good of moving to the top. dog eat dog world glad i am watching from behind glass. If I was front row it would be boring because most my employees would be using walkers or wheel chairs and taking family leave. Folks with a heart cant normally win. Thats why we love to say money isn't everything, it can't buy love!

DEATH WISH 2 wrote:

R <quoted text> What big name driver is avalible? Isn't Kurt the only big name driver that is looking for a ride ?

None that I currently know of but heard he's trying to shake the tree and see what falls out. One thing that comes to mind is that Kenseth needs a sponsor and Shell/Penzoil needs a driver....

It was commented quite a few times over the last 3 yrs.. That Tony needed to drive the car & let Darian be the crew chief.I guess it was true.)
Darian Grubb will take his 2011 championship-winning crew chief trophy with him from Stewart-Haas Racing to Joe Gibbs Racing when he starts work Monday as Denny Hamlin’s crew chief.

He will try to leave two things behind from his experiences with Tony Stewart: any ill feelings about being fired despite winning a championship and anything he learned from his experiences of being crew chief for a driver who also is the boss.

Told six weeks prior to the end of the 2011 that he would be fired at season’s end, Grubb responded to that situation by helping lead Stewart to three wins in the final four races in an incredible run to the Sprint Cup title.

That wasn’t enough to keep his job – both Grubb and Stewart said that neither considered a reconciliation – and Grubb spent less than a week unemployed as JGR hired him Friday to replace Mike Ford as Hamlin’s crew chief.

“I didn’t choose to not be a crew chief in the situation I was in before,” Grubb said Friday during a teleconference.“I really don’t feel like I have anything to prove other than I want to work with championship contenders.… I’m not going to do anything for spite because those are all the wrong reasons.

It's the CC job to set the car up how the driver feels comfortable because if he's not comfortable with the handling of the car he's not going to go as fast. I can remember numerous times they never could get the feel Tony needed. They'd make 5 or 6 pit stops and never change the balance of the car.

People just seem to want to look at the last few races and the fact they won the championship. I remember plenty of races thinking he totally missed the setup and they struggled all weekend. I was thinking in the middle of the summer they'd be lucky just to win one single race.

I like Darian and think he can be a good CC. I just don't think he's the right fit for Tony

LTE14 wrote:

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None that I currently know of but heard he's trying to shake the tree and see what falls out. One thing that comes to mind is that Kenseth needs a sponsor and Shell/Penzoil needs a driver....

I work for a chemicals who owns Valvoline. From what I understand we are sponsoring the 17# cat at least in several races

*Car

ge whiz I sounded like Rusty Wallace using the term "cat" LOL

Yhat would also be a chemical company!
Don't worry they write checks a lot better than I type!

interstate wrote:

<quoted text>I work for a chemicals who owns Valvoline. From what I understand we are sponsoring the 17# cat at least in several races

Thanks for the info...I hadn't heard anything but figured Matt could find a sponsor.

Anybody hear the rumor that Kurt may be going to RPM and replacing Dinger in the 43?

http://www.jayski.com/cupnews.htm

LTE14 wrote:

Anybody hear the rumor that Kurt may be going to RPM and replacing Dinger in the 43?

Then the dinger can start preaching since he was ordained. I hope he has quit his drinking since he got his DUI....