The Race Team Alliance!

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Sprint Cup teams form Race Team Alliance UPDATE: A group of nine multi-car teams participating in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) announced today they have formed a collaborative business association called the Race Team Alliance (RTA). The purpose of the organization is to create an open forum for the teams to explore areas of common interest and to work collaboratively on initiatives to help preserve, promote, and grow the sport of stock car racing. The organization intends to open up its membership to all full time NSCS teams in the very near future. In providing a vehicle for the teams to work together, the organization creates for the first time a single entity to engage with stakeholders on creative ways to market and experience the power of the sport's teams and drivers. As part of its focus, the RTA also plans to explore innovative ways to harness the combined purchasing power and scale of the teams' operations to drive efficiencies in costs. Rob Kauffman, co-owner of Michael Waltrip Racing, has been elected the first chair of the RTA.
"With the encouragement of NASCAR and the manufacturers, the teams have met in various forms and forums over the years to explore areas of common interest. This simply formalizes what was an informal group." said Kauffman. "The key word is 'Collaboration'. We all have vested interests in the success and popularity of stock car racing. By working together and speaking with a single voice, it should be a simpler and smoother process to work with current and potential groups involved with the sport. Whether it be looking for industry-wide travel partners or collaborating on technical issues - the idea is to work together to increase revenue, spend more efficiently, and deliver more value to our partners."
The following teams are the executive members of the RTA: Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, Hendrick Motor Sports, Joe Gibbs Racing, Michael Waltrip Racing, Richard Childress Racing, Richard Petty Motor Sports, Roush Fenway Racing, Stewart-Haas Racing and Team Penske.(RTA)(7-7-2014)
UPDATE: Statement from NASCAR: "We are aware of the alliance concept the team owners have announced, but have very few specifics on its structure or purpose. It is apparently still in development and we're still learning about the details so it would be inappropriate to comment right now. NASCAR's mission, as it has always been, is to create a fair playing field where anyone can come and compete. Our job is to support and strengthen all of the teams, large and small, across all of our series and we'll continue to do that. NASCAR is a unique community with hundreds of stakeholders. They all have a voice and always will."(NASCAR)(7-7-2014)

They're right. It's not a union. It's a CARTel...

 

[jeffro151]

I'm surprised it has taken this long for the car owners to get together. The leadership in NASCAR is totally out of touch with the teams and fans. Bruton Smith talked long ago about leaving NASCAR and forming his own series. Considering he owns Atlanta, Bristol, Charlotte, Kentucky, Las Vegas, New Hampshire, Sonoma and Texas, he clearly has the diversity of tracks to easily run a series of 24 races, racing 3 times at each track.

 

[Nascar Addict]

It's kind of like a RAD was back in the old days. When Richard Childress Racing, Andy Petree Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc. Racing got together to share in wind tunnel testing costs. And it worked too. They won a ton of plate track races back then as a group.

 

[Retroram52]

Like everything, its the cost of doing business that is killing NASCAR because of large corporations got their grimey little hands on it. Small operations can't make it without the big sponsors and now teams like Richrad Petty Motorsports are considered small teams. This alliance just may keep the sport grounded in its roots and stem the tide of super teams monoplizing it like what is going on presently to the disgust of many fans. The majority of NASCAR fans are not rich people. It is those people that built the sport not a few fat cats from large corporations.