NASCAR’s Independent Teams: Surviving The ‘Unchartered’ Wilderness

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

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4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When talking about the big business of Cup charters this week on the Download, Dale Jr. said something that struck us. He wondered how realistic it is in today’s NASCAR to be an open, unchartered team and financially be able to break even. Today on Reloaded we will ask the question - how do independent, non-chartered Cup teams make it (both financially and competitively) in today’s NASCAR? Host Carla Gebhart is joined by Jordan Bianchi from Dirty Mo Media’s The Teardown podcast to ask that very question to MBM Motorsports owner Carl Long and Cup Series owner/driver BJ McLeod, who now races as an open team after selling his charter. Plus, we listen to your short track concerns and your solutions for saving our beloved short tracks.

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0:00.0	NFL teams have franchises and NASCAR has charters and just like you
0:05.3	DJD reloaded wants to know a little bit more about the charter system but we don't
0:09.4	want to know about the teams that already have charters. We want to know about the independent
0:13.9	teams, the unchartered teams and the reason that we're asking this question
0:17.6	today is because Dale Jr. is actually the one that posed the question
0:20.9	earlier this week on the Dell Junior download, he kind of asked
0:24.4	what is the realistic expectation for these teams when they show up at the track? Can they be
0:29.1	competitive and can they break even on the weekend after they get there and he kind of used the example of
0:35.2	MBM Motorsports owner Carl Long on his show so how about we have Carl Long on our show he He's gonna call in a little bit later.
0:43.8	Plus, B.J. McCloud had a charter,
0:46.2	sold a charter, and is now a driver and owner
0:48.9	for an open team in the series.
0:51.0	He's gonna join us too.
0:52.4	And if you listen to the tear down on
0:54.2	dirty mow then you're already familiar with Jordan Bianchi's voice he's going
0:57.4	to weigh in here in studio with me plus we've got Dell calls we've got
1:00.9	social media reaction because I think we can all agree.
1:04.1	It was a wild weekend in NASCAR.
1:07.2	The following is a production of Dirtymo Media.
1:09.8	Welcome into another episode of DJD.
1:14.0	Are Reloaded.
1:15.0	Imagine your dream was to be involved in racing your entire life.
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