[Team Yates]

Shell to Hendrick? Rick Hendrick may be in the running for the lucrative Shell-Pennzoil sponsorship for 2010, according to sources in the NASCAR garage. Car owner Richard Childress is in the third season of Shell sponsorship, but he has said little about the contract or any negotiations. Hendrick has had a long-standing sponsorship relationship with Quaker State, which is owned by Shell. If Shell were to move from the Childress camp to the Hendrick camp, it would apparently go on Mark Martin's car. NASCAR executives are expected to discuss the full range of sponsorship issues with key car owners and drivers in next week's planned annual post-Daytona 400 'seminar.' That private retreat each July was started by the late Bill France Jr., to get an inside look at the state of the sport from the owners' perspective.(MikeMulhern.net)(6-28-2009)

[Stewart Fan]

Hendrick wants everything doesn't he? lol

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Originally Posted by Stewart Fan

Hendrick wants everything doesn't he? lol

While I'm sure he does want everything you have to also understand that with the economy in the state that it is in the sponsor wants everything too. If you are consistently NOT on TV then the sponsor might just as well be burning the money. If you were investing millions of dollars looking for TV exposure and got none .... what would you do ?

[Racer Duck]

Harvick's getting TV exposure .. problem is it's mostly showing his wrecked car...

There's no doubt RCR isn't performing up to their standards this year. Dunno what the problem is, or if it's just they seem to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, but they'll suffer the consequences if they don't get it turned around soon.

Their "leader" (Jeff Burton) was very positive in his remarks after his part of the race was over. He indicated they had finally found some stuff to make them competitive. Now if they can just stay out of those wrecks...

[nascaraddict]

Why the heck not? Everything else is gone to Hendrick.

The only thing that I like over there is Mark, and Dale Earnhart Jr.