Runnin' Bare is a Bolingbrook resident who will offer guest blogs about motorsports, giving his views on both the local tracks and the national circuits. This is his first post for The Brook Blog. He can be reached at richrunninbare@sbcglobal.net.
There was a time after Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s death when DEI had the most popular and highest revenue generator in USA Motorsports in Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Remember Budweiser paying $10 million to Mr. and Mrs. Earnhardt before Jr. ever raced a Winston Cup event?
Paul Menard is a Wisconsin boy and son of John Menard, owner of Menard's and hard core racer with a resume of race teams second to none at Indianapolis in the 1990's. He funded of the famous DEI engines. Which as you know now does not exist on its own any longer.
The brains are now at RCR or Richard Childress Racing.
Martin Truex Jr. was a young up and coming hard charger in the North East, whose father owns and operates commercial fishing boats on the Atlantic. Seems to me to be a perfect business to business fit for a long term deal and the key to the Museum vs. Motorsports Team question.
