That effort’s relatively sudden surge to competitiveness after years, going back to DEI, of mediocrity leaves me smelling fish as did Dillon’s Daytona pole to M2.
The team is short 33% on sponsorship. His salesman says Hendrick understands his value and refuses to lower his price point. Apparently the game needs to be stepped up as potential sponsors’ fascination over the cash cow continues to dry up.
It’s not as if a thief, especially one skilled at bribery, doesn’t know how to use his resources with a corporation (Honda), government (Federal), or, in this case, a sanctioning body (NASCAR), to his advantage.
Is it coincidence a pardoned thief, in the form of Hendrick, and a convicted thief, in the form of Haas, have the rights to the two biggest frauds in NASCAR? I don’t think so.