Dodge Leaving Nascar!

Press Conference from Dodge today. Sources say they are pulling out after this year.

http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cup/story/_/id/8242554/dodge-nasca...

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Permalink Reply by john hanko on August 7, 2012 at 10:51am

Its always a bad thing for any series to lose a manufactuer, I think Dodge tried somewhat but at the end of the day there just wasn't a strong enough case for them to stay in Nascar. Besides parent company Fiat isn't crazy about it & would spend their money in other series like ALMS, or Rally, Dodge had 2 Vipers at Mid Ohio last weekend & reps from the company were on hand.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on August 7, 2012 at 11:02am

Dancing with interest I'd imagine

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Permalink Reply by Turtle7 on August 7, 2012 at 11:10am

Jayski is also reporting Dodge is a goner. Will Robby return to the BowTie when he runs for a spot next Feb. at
Daytona?

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Permalink Reply by Duck 660 on August 7, 2012 at 11:18am

NASCAR.COM confirms Dodge is gone. I wonder if RGM would have better resourcing opportunities if they ran the same manufacturer in all the series in which they compete. Just a thought/rhetorical question.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on August 7, 2012 at 12:00pm

Who in world says Robby will "EVER" get in a stock car again???????????????????

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Permalink Reply by McG on August 8, 2012 at 12:00pm

Exactly! RG is done with Nascar...SST is going to be a Full Time commitment!!!

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Permalink Reply by WJM on August 7, 2012 at 12:31pm

No surprise. If it wasn't for Daimler, Chrysler wouldn't have returned to racing, period.

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Permalink Reply by mj on August 7, 2012 at 1:00pm

I knew something was gonna happen . You just can't be competitive in nascar with just 1 team . If they were truly gonna stay w nascar I'm sure they would've at least TRIED to help Robby . After all 3 cars is still better than 2 . Mr Penske ain't no dummy either he knew they were going long ago thus the manufacture switch announcement . I say bye bye and have fun selling Fiats .

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Permalink Reply by Michael Martinez on August 7, 2012 at 1:16pm

I say according to the old copies of HOTROD magazine, the memories of driving my buddies 71 Challenger, the development of the MoPaR Hemi (read the true history) the existence of the Dodge Daytona, and okay the Plymouth Superbird (read the true history) and countless other historic happenings over the history of the American Auto world involving this brand they rock. That in a perfect world a perfect one all the biggies would be "STOCK CAR" racing. However instead we have a frigged up way of counting jits in this world that has the .........my soup is burning gotta run

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Permalink Reply by GTX - HEMI on August 8, 2012 at 11:04am

Michael.......don't forget the 5 hemi engines that were built for the GLODENROD that held the speed record (409.227) at Bonneville. After being restored in 2006 it now sits in the Henry Ford Museum.....go figure.