Dale Jr & JR Motorsports expanded !!!

[RaceFanStan]

Hendrick Motorsports Nationwide Series operations has merged with Dale Jr & JR Motorsports.
Dale Jr retains total ownership of JR Motorsports but his new partner will add benefits.
Hendrick Motorsports will supply engines, chassis and engineering support to JR Motorsports. :s hock:

http://www.scenedaily.com/stories/2007/07/30/scene_daily111.html

[RaceFanStan]

Jimmie Johnson is to compete in 3 Nationwide Series races in 2008.
The car will be fielded by JR Motorsports & it will be the #5.
The #5 Nationwide Series Chevrolet will be sponsored by Lowe's.
Johnson will race @ Charlotte on May 24 & Oct 10, then California on Aug 30.

http://www.scenedaily.com/stories/2007/12/10/scene_daily18.html

[harvick#1]

all it is, a Hendrick motorsports car, Jr doesn't build anything, unlike KHI, where they actually build the cars and Chassis' for 2 trucks and 2 cars.

guess Jooyner doesn't want to build up from scratch, he just wants the cars handed to him :mark:

[Sparky1329]

I think it was a smart move to combine forces rather than compete with each other.

[muggle not]

The object is to have a winning organization. Jr will have one.

[BobbyC]

JR Motorsports already builds cars in their own shop with the Gee boys (his uncles) doing the work. Hendrick's Nationwide Series cars and staff are going to Dale Jr's shop. This is a reunification of sorts, since the 1983 Budweiser Late Model Sportsman Series had a Hendrick and Gee-owned car power Dale Snr to a victory at LMS.

[RaceFanStan]

Dale Jr's Chance2 Busch team, (now JR MotorSports) "built" Busch cars ...
Dale Jr bought some prefab rolling Busch Series chassis with ...
his staff hanging the sheet-metal & installing DEI engines ...
at least now the engine supplier has changed to Hendrick MotorSports. http://www.motorsportforum.com/forums/images/icons/tongue-anim.gif
(Most likely Hendrick will also now supply the chassis for JRMS.)

[ShadowCar]

Dale Jr's Chance2 Busch team, (now JR MotorSports) "built" Busch cars ...
Dale Jr bought some prefab rolling Busch Series chassis with ...
his staff hanging the sheet-metal & installing DEI engines ...
at least now the engine supplier has changed to Hendrick MotorSports. http://www.motorsportforum.com/forums/images/icons/tongue-anim.gif
(Most likely Hendrick will also now supply the chassis for JRMS.)

The interesting thing about Chance2 was that it was supposed to be Dale Jr.'s opportunity to show Teresa that he was ready for some management role at DEI. So under his direction, they won two Busch championships and then disbanded the team.

So I'd like to know what more he needed to do for her that he didn't do with 2 Busch championships. Well, we all know how it eventually played out but I always thought that whole deal was strange.