Ganassi Drops Teresa Earnhardt from NASCAR operation

[Ajwehr]

Chip Ganassi changes team name, drops Earnhardt from NASCAR operation: When Sprint Cup testing begins Thursday morning at Daytona International Speedway, there will be one well-known NASCAR name missing among the list of team owners. Earnhardt. The #1 and #42 Sprint Cup teams, which were run the last five years under the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates banner, will now return to their former name: Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. The sign outside the North Carolina shop already has been changed, and stickers on the cars and patches on the driver and crew uniforms will carry the Chip Ganassi logo instead of the EGR logo. Ganassi officials confirmed the change Wednesday but had no comment on the financial structure of the current organization, which fields Sprint Cup cars for Jamie McMurray and Kyle Larson. Teresa Earnhardt, widow of seven-time Cup champion Dale Earnhardt and owner of Dale Earnhardt Inc., has not been involved in the day-to-day operations of the team and with the change apparently no longer has any financial stake in the NASCAR operation. There will be no change in the operation of the Ganassi teams, as Teresa Earnhardt has had little influence on the organization's day-to-day operations. Ganassi began using Hendrick Motorsports engines in 2013 in its two Cup cars.(in part from the Sporting News) Via Jayski.com

 

[B.McKeever]

Thought people were saying this wouldn't happen?

Good riddance. She didn't do anything to improve the team.

 

[AMLNet49]

Everyone saw this one coming for like two years

 

[Renault Fan]

Yeah not a real surprise but it sucks that Teresa let Dale's hard worked fade away like that. Make you wonder how DEI would be today if Teresa would have sold 50% of team team to Dale Jr like he wanted and like she should have before she got greedy.

 

[timnsr72]

It really is a shame, Dale worked hard to create a Sprint Cup team with his name on it. Really hope that one day the Earnhardt children restart DEI. It was a major part of Dale's legacy that has faded away.

 

[ThatOneShredder]

Good! I don't even know what else to say, she was only in the sport for as long as she was because of her last name.

 

[Brandon Miller]

I've read somewhere that the Garage Mahal that was DEI has basically been turned into horse stables for Taylor.

 

[Henderson]

A lot of people from the team said she didn't do much, if anything at all, that it was mainly run under Ganassi and Sebates anyway. And that's from day one of the partnership.

 

[evan07]

Not like she did anything anyways. So to me its not a big deal that she's gone.

 

[B.McKeever]

Teresa may have made some bad choices but in all honesty she was the brains that created DEI. She was a marketing goddess. Dale had the name...she had the brains. Once the name was gone she had no collateral for sponsorship.

 

[4WideRacing]

I have mixed feelings about this one but I think it's a good thing overall.

 

[dalejrgamer]

Yeah not a real surprise but it sucks that Teresa let Dale's hard worked fade away like that. Make you wonder how DEI would be today if Teresa would have sold 50% of team team to Dale Jr like he wanted and like she should have before she got greedy.

Well, for one, Junior wouldn't bolt for Hendrick.