Submitted by NASCAR Ranting and Raving Blog
Man this week has just flown by. I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable Halloween yesterday, my kids had a blast - to quote my son, “This Halloween was the best ever!”
I would agree, it was.
I’ve also been really busy at work. As some of you know, I do a lot of coaching with the students that I work with and we are at the peak of volleyball season right now . I usually coach the Senior Girl’s Team, but since our Senior Boy’s Team coach has become ill, I’ve been coaching both the Boys and Girls teams - both teams are currently sitting at 3 and 1. Not bad, but they should both be at 4 - 0. The Girls lost a heart breaker Tuesday with a hugely unpopular call by the linesman (even the Home Team’s fans couldn’t believe the call), and the Boys just lost to a team tonight that was slightly less skilled than us, but still beat us none-the-less because we mentally took ourselves out of the game by making a few stupid mistakes early and not really letting them go by focusing on the next point and not on the one we just lost. Boys at this age are a lot more difficult to coach let me tell you - they may be more skilled than the girls, but the girls have much smaller egos and are able to let the mistakes go and not dwell on them making them better team players. Boys don’t master that skill until High School I find. Wish me luck, I have to coach the Girls tomorrow.
Anyway, my life has been about Halloween and Volleyball this week and that is why I haven’t been posting at my regular pace - sorry - good thing not much in has happened this week in NASCAR.
One thing I want out point out though is what is happening over at Bill Davis racing. First we hear that Jacques Villeneuve’s manager, Craig Pollock, is set to buy out Bill Davis Racing.
“I’m interested in having an active participation in a NASCAR team, preferably the one where Jacques drives,” said Pollock. “It’s the best way to make sure that my driver has access to the best equipment available.”
“Every scenario has been examined, and this, with a lot of teams. We talked about partial buyouts, complete buyouts, set up of a new independent team, and multiple opportunities for a satellite team that would benefit from the expertise of an existing team.
“We talked to Roush, Evernham, Childress and, of course, Bill Davis.”
And now we hear that Bill Davis Trucking has filed for bankruptcy protection. “This has been a very unfortunate chain of events and Gail and I certainly hate that it ever had to happen,” Bill Davis said in a prepared team statement. “Bill Davis Trucking and Bill Davis Racing are two completely separate entities, and the race team will in no way be affected by today’s announcement.” In which the bankruptcy filing “was necessitated by an injury accident and an ensuing lawsuit against the [trucking] company.”
OK, I can see that these are still two separate business entities and all, but I’m sorry, this will have an effect on each other and the way I see it is that Bill Davis may not quite give up all of BDR. I think Pollock may be close in getting more than 50% of the team, but I don’t think he’ll get all of it just yet.
Certainly, if Pollock is involved Villeneuve probably won’t be going anywhere for a while, Pollock did own (at least in some capacity) British American Racing (BAR) in F1 and put Villeneuve in the car as his driver.
We should watch this story develop over the next week or so and see what happens.
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