Top 35 will lose two teams in 2011 & FRM likely to downsize

RPM announced today they currently plan to only run a 2 car team in 2011, the #9 of Marcos Ambrose and #43 of AJ Allmendinger.

Nascar has allowed organizations to broker deals with other teams (RCR moved the #07 points to the 78 team).

If a deal isn't worked out, the teams below would just move up into the Top 35. With the 38, 26, 7, 37, 34 and 71 fighting to stay inside the Top 35, all could be solid inside at the end of the season. Only 2 teams outside the Top 35 are realistically within reach. If RPM's 2 teams dissolve and no deals are worked out, then they would inside the Top 35.

Added 9/10/2010

Front Row Motorsports not sure on 3 teams for 2011: When asked about the future of the team's third car, the #38 squad that currently sits outside the top 35 in owner points, Front Row Motorsports Jerry Freeze didn't mince words. "It's a big question mark right now. Unless we have some phenomenal success in finding sponsorship, I don't see any way we can carry three cars next year. I think the likely scenario is that FRM will run two cars next year. We really like David [Gilliland] and Travis [Kvapil], we're planning on those guys coming back and we're talking with them about it, so that's the direction I think we'll be going in. Then again, maybe we start next year running that third car if it's in the top 35. If it's not, it may just go away." That said, the team is also very much aware of just how valuable team number three is. They know just how close they are to locking a third entry into the Sprint Cup field, and what that means from both a competitive and fiscal standpoint. "Now we get that car back in the top 35, we have a lot of options for next year," Freeze explains. "That's why we're working so hard ... I would bet the house that if we had a third car in the top 35 at the end of this year that we could find a driver with a sponsor to run the Daytona 500. That's a great-paying race, and could be a great value to FRM."(Frontstretch)

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Permalink Reply by MikeNIN7 on August 25, 2010 at 6:49pm

That is a big if with the stupid chase Jamie. But good call if he wins it.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on August 25, 2010 at 8:35pm

He is winning it. Book it .

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Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on August 26, 2010 at 7:52pm

Andrew Ranger won't even finish in the Top 5.... Robby, Marcos, Carl, Boris, Fellows, Villeneuve, and Carpentier will all finish ahead of him!!!!

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Permalink Reply by TOG on August 26, 2010 at 8:22pm

who ?

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Permalink Reply by Dave-O on August 26, 2010 at 8:59pm

You've never heard of Boris Said?

Permalink Reply by Scott B on August 26, 2010 at 9:10pm

Who is Boris Said?

Permalink Reply by J.R. Sands on August 26, 2010 at 9:16pm

He's a Saidhead....there's only 1. I had the chance to watch him climb into a cup car at Sonoma, that was good stuff right there

Permalink Reply by irlfan on August 26, 2010 at 11:34pm

Who's this Ranger guy, it seems a few on here think he's the next coming of Christ or something, never heard of him.

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Permalink Reply by Saluki7 on August 26, 2010 at 9:18pm

harvick will choke on the title and I will laugh my a$$ off, i hae that "yap-yap" per Ricky Rudd

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Permalink Reply by Beth on August 27, 2010 at 7:43pm

Harvick won't win it. The last three years, the driver that has dominated the season hasn't won the championship.

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Permalink Reply by Bigzoom on September 10, 2010 at 10:46am

Front Row Motorsports not sure on 3rd team for 2011: When asked about the future of the team's third car, the #38 squad that currently sits outside the top 35 in owner points, Front Row Motorsports Jerry Freeze didn't mince words. "It's a big question mark right now. Unless we have some phenomenal success in finding sponsorship, I don't see any way we can carry three cars next year. I think the likely scenario is that FRM will run two cars next year. We really like David [Gilliland] and Travis [Kvapil], we're planning on those guys coming back and we're talking with them about it, so that's the direction I think we'll be going in. Then again, maybe we start next year running that third car if it's in the top 35. If it's not, it may just go away." That said, the team is also very much aware of just how valuable team number three is. They know just how close they are to locking a third entry into the Sprint Cup field, and what that means from both a competitive and fiscal standpoint. "Now we get that car back in the top 35, we have a lot of options for next year," Freeze explains. "That's why we're working so hard ... I would bet the house that if we had a third car in the top 35 at the end of this year that we could find a driver with a sponsor to run the Daytona 500. That's a great-paying race, and could be a great value to FRM."(Frontstretch)