[Racer Duck]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- After two seasons of cooperatively fielding teams in NASCAR's three national tours, Wood Brothers Racing and JTG Racing have split their competition elements for 2008.

The two groups will still work together in several administrative functions, including marketing and the teams' show car programs; as well as their race parts operation, both teams' principals said Saturday.

This season, the two organizations will continue to work out of a 120,000-square-foot shop in Harrisburg, N.C., that currently houses pairs of teams in Cup, Nationwide and the Truck Series.

Geschickter said changes in NASCAR led to the divergence.

"Obviously, the competition part of it has changed, with the Car of Tomorrow in Cup and the old car in [Nationwide]; and truck with different rule packages," Geschickter said. "Originally the idea was to have one big competition department to share data, and that became less and less effective and really made us pretty slow to make decisions.

"So what we've done is just change our business structure, tighten the spans of control in the competition department by series and other than that, we're still all working together."

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[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by Racer Duck

"Obviously, the competition part of it has changed, with the Car of Tomorrow in Cup and the old car in [Nationwide]; and truck with different rule packages," Geschickter said. "Originally the idea was to have one big competition department to share data, and that became less and less effective and really made us pretty slow to make decisions.

"So what we've done is just change our business structure, tighten the spans of control in the competition department by series and other than that, we're still all working together."

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Makes sense. I'd guess that JTG was getting the best end of the deal.