DEI Ganassi Merger Fallout
A few hours after the official announcement was made DEI and Chip Ganassi Racing were merging operations the fall out is starting to drift downwind.
And it ain’t pretty.
The fallout cloud has settled over Dale Jr. who frankly states the obvious. Earnhardt Jr. was asked what his father would think about the team he founded having to merge to survive.
“I don’t know. Your guess is as good as mine,” Earnhardt said. “But he would have had better luck at securing sponsorships and maybe kept them from being in the state they’re in.
“When my daddy died, all that changed. If he was here, this would be sad, but he’s not. Now they have to do their own thing and make their own way. I don’t have anything to do with it.”
Ever modest, Dale didn’t and probably never would mention DEI’s sponsor search would have been much more productive if Mother Teresa hadn’t been such wench during negotiations that may have kept him at DEI with an ownership stake in the company.
Moving downwind a bit more is Crew chief Tony Gibson, who will leave DEI after Homestead to be the crew chief for Ryan Newman at Stewart-Haas Racing:
“It’s scary right now,” he said. “They let 100-some people go. It’s real scary. Nobody is really talking. I kind of got out of the loop once I made my decision to go. I kind of got shut out of some of those meetings over there, which that should be the case. I know last week it was real quiet in that shop. A lot of guys were uncertain about what their future is. Some people aren’t going to want to merge that are working there.
They’re really confused and not sure how this is going to work. I don’t think they’ve worked the motor deal out yet. I don’t think they’ve worked a lot of things out yet. So, a lot of people really got nervous. It’s like a morgue over there right now. It’s understandable.”
The downward spiral is frighting isn’t it?
DEI goes from one of the most respected teams in the industry, to a monetary cat fight over Jr. owning part of the team, his final departure, being called a “Museum” by Tony Stewart to it’s present state. A team that apparently has the atmosphere of a morgue that merges with another mid-level team hoping to survive.
And put 100 plus people out on the street jobless.
I guess it could have been worse, the merger and pink slips could have occurred on Christmas Eve.
I have lots of friends every-where,I am 65 yrs old,and I think the reason that DEI is on a downward trend is because she brought in a Negro to run the company.No matter what any one says or thinks ,that is what happened.I travel all over the east coast and that is what I hear.The racial problem is here and it is going to stay,all you have to do is look at grandstands.
Let me guess Wallace, you have a lot of friends, but none of them are “negros?”
Race issues are part of every section of American society, as well as most others, but for you to make claim you have only shows your complete ignorance of DEI’s past history.
A history I hasten to add includes a downward trend that long preceded the hiring of DEI president Max Siegel.
But what the hell, why let a little reality get in the way of your racist rant, right Wallace?