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If I had said this six months ago, you would have insisted that I'd lost my last marble. But now the notion doesn't seem so crazy, does it? I pick Tony Stewart to win the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship.

That's right - my money's on "Smoke" and I'm feeling pretty confident given the way he's behaving lately. Taking the point lead at Dover, and winning for the first time as a car owner a week later at Pocono, sealed the deal for me, but let me point out that six months ago I was in the minority who believed in the notion that Stewart-Haas Racing would actually succeed.

 

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]]> joe gibbs racingJoeGibbsRacingryan newmanRyanNewmanstewart haas racingStewartHaasRacingtony stewartTonyStewart Dave Despain dave-despain 2009-06-11T14:38:00 00:00 NASCAR Can Afford to Tighten Belt More http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2009/04/02/nascar-can-afford-to-tighten-belt-more/ http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2009/04/02/nascar-can-afford-to-tighten-belt-more/ http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2009/04/02/nascar-can-afford-to-tighten-belt-more/#comments Dave Despainby Dave Despain

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NASCAR on SPEED ScheduleDuring the NASCAR offseason - November to February - as the U.S. and world economies headed deeper into the tank, we heard a lot of gloom and doom about the future of America's most popular motor sport. Corporate sponsorship, the lifeblood of racing, is currently hard to come by and the '09 season opened with an unhealthy number of cars lacking high-dollar logos on their hoods.

Though I am no economist, I have, through all the naysaying, remained bullish on stock car racing. Harvard MBAs, correct me if I'm wrong, I believe when there is less money to spend, a wise strategy is to spend less money. And at risk of curmudgeonry, I believe the stock car economy, bloated through more than two decades of runaway success, has plenty of room to tighten the old belt.

 

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