Charter Concerns Are A Fan Problem, Not A NASCAR Problem

Concern: The “your team can field a fifth car for a rookie”-rule has been eliminated.

Remember that year at Talladega when Brad Keselowski was driving full-time in the Nationwide Series for JR Motorsports, and he got in the fifth Hendrick Motorsports car and won the Cup race?

If that’s how you remember it, you’re remembering it wrong. Keselowski was driving for James Finch (officially) in that race, not Hendrick Motorsports.

The point is just because a four-car Cup team won’t be able to field the fifth car themselves, they will still have the means to get a rookie driver in the field. You don’t think if Joe Gibbs Racing wanted to get Daniel Suarez into a Cup race, that they couldn’t write fellow Toyota team BK Racing a check to make that happen? And who suffers for that? JGR? No. BK? Definitely no. Race fans? Absolutely no.

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