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ECR and Dragon Racing get last 2 Leader's Circle spots

Nice to see teams with a Penske and Tony George connections get the last 2 spots, (I need a eye rolling emoticon here), while BHA, last year's Indy 500 winning team, doesn't get anything. I thought the Indy 500 was the biggest race of the year? Not to mention the 60K the teams had to cough up to do a presentation to Indycar.

Way to go Indycar! SMH

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Permalink Reply by icrackedtheaces on February 10, 2012 at 10:04pm

Apparently Rb cut the Leaders circle from 22 to 20 teams. I guess 21st and 22nd place money will be split up with the 4 or 5 highest running non Leader circle cars getting a portion of the money every races. Something like 60K if you are the highest running non-leader circle car down to 25k for 5th.

Mike Shank said something to the effect of why not split it up to the teams that didn't get picked which equates to something like 400K for the year.

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Permalink Reply by Iowa Guy on February 15, 2012 at 3:15pm

For what it's worth, I'm told that the reasoning cited by the front office for choosing Dragon and Carpenter for these slots is that they both presented some big marketing plans -- with Penske saying he will employ his various media and internet interests and Fuzzy's saying they will do two- to four weeks of promotional blitzes in the race markets prior to the events this year.

But, politics being politics, I'd say if you're old enough to have been around the block a few times, you are free to draw your own conclusions....