Kyle Sits, McCumbee Gets Up on the Wheel
Lets face it, this has to be the best for the team and “Kyle Petty, Son Of Richard.”
Petty will not compete this weekend in the Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway as Petty Enterprises looks to evaluate its #45 Dodge team. The organization has decided to use Truck Series regular Chad McCumbee for Sunday’s race at Texas.
The frank assessment from this quarter is Kyle should have stepped aside a few years ago. He’s been mostly a field filler since he last won at Dover in 1995. While any win is impressive on its own merits, he started 37th, led 271 laps of 500, and beat Bobby Labonte across the line. But it has to be said, that win broke a long drought, it was his first win in 60 events. (’93 at Pocono)
A small piece of advice for McCumbee, Kyle is said to have listened to Sister Hazel during race weekends to relax, don’t do it it, obviously it hasn’t helped.
UPDATE: The hammer is dropped on Petty, (as if it hadn’t already) General Mills is pulling his sponsorship of the #43 and moving it to the #33 as RCR’s fourth team in 2009.
UPDATE II: Bob Margolis at Yahoo! Sports is still pushing the Bobby Labonte to RCR rumor for 2009. Admit it… or don’t, coupled with GM Food’s announcement this rumor is falling into place.
Good stuff Marc. We have Chad for ON PIT ROW tonight. Your countless fans can listen live at onpitrow.com starting at 5 pm edt. I hadn’t seen the sponsor announcement. Too bad for the Petty team, but I suspect they knew it was coming before drafting Chad.
Very precipitous timing I’d say Charlie.
Come on, fess up, how much cash do you slip Kyle for him to step aside so your guest was “Mr. Headliner” today?
You may have ON PIT ROW confused with a show with an actual budget. Chad was great and the show was “better than average.” That is one messed up team though. There must be a plan that nobody else can see. At least I hope so.
Yepper, it was a good show, well it was ’til the conspiracy theories wedged their way onto the scene.