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Tough economy takes toll on Ganassi and Franchitti’s #40 team

FastCar Newsdesk for Daytona, week of July 4th, 2008

Though the top story at the end of this week likely will be the expected announcement of the pairing of Mark Martin and the Rick Hendrick No. 5 car, another big story from the beginning of the week resides at Chip Ganassi Racing. On Tuesday, Chip Ganassi and Felix Sabates announced that they were shutting down the #40 Sprint Cup team of driver Dario Franchitti, due to lack of sponsorship. The approximately 70 employees working on the team also received pink slips. This has not been the year the Franchitti dreamed of, after winning the Indy 500 and IRL championship last year.
The season started with a question mark, as sponsor Coor’s decided to leave the team and sponsor the Pole Award. The team has run with an array of sponsors this season, but has not been able to secure a full-time supporter for the season. Franchitti and the team ran poorly from the start of the season, fell out of the Top 35, and thus have failed to qualify for several races. Franchitti also missed races due to a broken ankle he received in a crash in the Nationwide Series race at Talladega.

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Daytona (Statistically Speaking)

Well, folks, we are back around to Daytona, the third restrictor plate race of 2008. There have been a few that have done well in the first two restrictor plate races who should once again fair well.

I have diced up COT stats, similar track stats (Talladega + Daytona), recent Daytona averages, restrictor plate averages, top 25 of 2008, laps led stats, bonus point leaders and much more thrown together into one big pot brought to a boil, simmered and served. Enjoy!

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