alan jones

Ford cuts ties with Jasper Motorsports

DEARBORN, Michigan, October 1, 2003 - Ford Racing Technology has dissolved
its formal association with Jasper Motorsports in NASCAR's Winston Cup
Series.

Jasper Motorsports, which was under contract to field the #77 Jasper Engines
Ford Taurus for the entire 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season, violated a
fundamental provision in its agreement with Ford Motor Company by competing
in last Sunday's EA Sports 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in a Dodge...

http://www.motorsport.com/news/artic...&SN=NASCAR-WCS

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Doesn't surprise me. Wasn't there at least a loose agreement between Jasper
and Penske South for a while just prior to Penske changing over to Dodge. I
figured it would only be a matter of time before Jasper made the change too.
They need to maintain some sort of association with a multi-car, high-dollar
team in order to try and stay competitive. Else they and the Wood Bros would
have been out of racing some time ago.

I personally can't wait until the *other* shoe (aside from BDR) drops when
folks start tinkering with Toyotas in the CTS that run other makes in NBS or
NNC (NASCAR NEXTel Cup???). TRD isn't just going to play around with NASCAR
and I can see some struggling teams lining up for the Toyota factory support
since the info I have says that TRD (a USA company located in
California/Michigan) will be building *all* the Yota engines for the initial
efforts. That's a ton of in0house money saved for a team I'd think.