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Jayski is reporting that Truex could be leaving DEI to head to Gibbs to replace Joey Thrillshow soon. Seems that his contract has a clause in it that DEI must maintain 3 full time cars. They "can" count Andretti for the time being and also count Almirola. However Almirola's team might be shut down after this week. This would free Truex to get out of his DEI contract and go elsewhere. This in turn frees Bass Pro Shops to leave for Stewart/Haas Racing and become one of the main sponsors for Ryan Newman.
I see this as very plausible in all honesty. It makes so much sense. Truex, an established Cup guy, takes over the high dollar Home Depot ride from Logano. This allows Gibbs to continue to develop Joey in Nationwide as well as Cup in a 4th Gibbs car. This would lead to a full time gig for Logano next year or in 2011 in a 4th Gibbs car with not nearly as much pressure and much more experience under his belt. It seems like a win/win situation. Gibbs gets a driver worthy of driving the Home Depot car right now and has time to develop Joey before they ruin him like Evernham did with Casey Atwood.
The downside of this is that DEI would go out with a whimper. Of course IMO only there was so much mismanagement there that I find it almost fitting. This would eliminate the 1 team as well as the 8 team from Cup competition and probably allow guys like Riggs and Mayfield to keep plugging along. In fact, if the 1 shuts down then those points would likely be sold to someone outside of the top 35 right now.
So, Truex in the Home Depot Toyota? Who knows but it makes sense to me. And I could see it happening as soon as Phoenix in two weeks. Next week is an off weekend where alot of things could go down.......
I see this as very plausible in all honesty. It makes so much sense. Truex, an established Cup guy, takes over the high dollar Home Depot ride from Logano. This allows Gibbs to continue to develop Joey in Nationwide as well as Cup in a 4th Gibbs car. This would lead to a full time gig for Logano next year or in 2011 in a 4th Gibbs car with not nearly as much pressure and much more experience under his belt. It seems like a win/win situation. Gibbs gets a driver worthy of driving the Home Depot car right now and has time to develop Joey before they ruin him like Evernham did with Casey Atwood.
The downside of this is that DEI would go out with a whimper. Of course IMO only there was so much mismanagement there that I find it almost fitting. This would eliminate the 1 team as well as the 8 team from Cup competition and probably allow guys like Riggs and Mayfield to keep plugging along. In fact, if the 1 shuts down then those points would likely be sold to someone outside of the top 35 right now.
So, Truex in the Home Depot Toyota? Who knows but it makes sense to me. And I could see it happening as soon as Phoenix in two weeks. Next week is an off weekend where alot of things could go down.......
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