Tag: Felix Sabates
Sabates remarks about Michigan were pure stupidity
Posted Jan 31, 2010, under NASCAR News and Opinion
MATT MYFTIU – Oakland Press
Felix Sabates knows better, which makes his words all the more disappointing.
He knows that his whole career is based on the U.S. auto industry, whose heart and soul is based in Detroit. Without it, he wouldn’t be the millionaire he is today. He wouldn’t have run his own NASCAR team for years, and he wouldn’t still be a minority owner in Chip Ganassi’s NASCAR team.
When he said in an interview earlier this week that the state of Michigan and the auto industry “is never coming back to what it used to be,” and suggested removing Michigan Speedway from the NASCAR schedule, he went way over the line of decency and respect.
Woody: NASCAR Too Much of a Good Thing?
Posted Jan 29, 2010, under NASCAR News and Opinion
By Larry Woody | Senior Writer
RacinToday.com
Back on my grandfather’s farm there was this crazy old goat (no, I don’t mean my grandpa) who broke into the feed bin one night and literally ate himself sick.
I won’t go into the graphic details but let’s just say if you’ve ever seen a sick goat the vision sticks with you.
My grandpa said the goat had become “foundered” by gorging itself with too many goodies.
The parable of the sick goat came to mind the other day when I read Felix Sabates’ theory about what’s wrong with NASCAR. He thinks fans have become foundered on racing.
NASCAR team owner: ‘Michigan is never coming back to what it used to be’
Posted Jan 29, 2010, under NASCAR News and Opinion
NASCAR Sprint Cup team owner Felix Sabates had some in a recent interview with www.thatsracin.com (part of the Charlotte Observer’s empire).
Sabates apparently thinks NASCAR got too big for its britches, in terms of track capacity, television exposure and number of races. He advocates trimming the Sprint Cup schedule from 36 to 30 races. Two of the six he’d cut? The annual stops at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn.
“I mean, there’s nobody left in Detroit other than the police and the unemployed,” Sabates told the site. ‘I’d cut Michigan off the schedule altogether. Michigan — I’m talking about the state — is never coming back to what it used to be, so why go there and throw good money after bad money?”
Charged with responding to that pile of thoughts was MIS president Roger Curtis.
