ellis wrote:
Anyway, whilst Chips decision is...silly...you can hardly blame Dario can you? He is being offered the seat and wants it. When your a racing driver you're career progression never takens into account "Oh what if this means someone else doesn't get a seat because of me", "what if this holds someone back" etc. If that is how racing drivers worked then we wouldn't have racing series.
You have to take what you can get in motorsport, and unfortunately for Clauson, Chip offered Dario the seat.
But on the other hand, Chip also offered Dario a ride in his IndyCar team, which is the best seat in the house in that series, so considering that his stock car future is pretty bleak, I can't see what made him choose a year in Nationwide over returning back to doing what he did best, especially when the consequences are that of a promising development driver losing his ride.
ellis wrote:
Lets be honest though, looking at Ganassi right now, would you want to be a development driver for them? I wouldn't if I was Clauson. It looks like its going to fall apart at any minute. This might be a blessing in disguise if another team picks him up.
Their Nationwide program hasn't run as bad as their Cup one though. Bryan was running really strong in a lot of races this year but met with a string of accidents not of his doing. A few more good runs with that team and maybe he'd have been picked up by another team who have a better Cup program, like Penske for example. Now I wonder where Clauson will go, maybe the #81 team? That'd be a huge stepdown, but better than not driving at all atleast.