If given the choice, Skinner’ll still take the winS (and risk much FOR every one of them) — NCTS or not — AND THEREBY the championship(s) … but the wins come first for a guy like him. HE at least “gets” the fact that if you stack up enough WINS? Hey — guess what — you’ve also got the POINTS for the championship at the end of the year, without counting ‘em every lap/race, and then “driving” vs. racin’ accordingly. WOW — what a concept.

Perhaps that’s the sort of “principal”-esque mentoring so many of these other teams are needing, to put some FIRE back in their drivers’/crew chiefs’ bellies. To stop being afraid of “penalties” and the “Big Red Truck” and “what other teams will SAY (aka, how much they’ll whine)” and “whether or not other drivers will WORK with you if you don’t cut ‘em slack every other lap until the last 20″, etc., etc., etc.

Nope … perhaps — just perhaps — it’s still just about RACIN’ for Skinner, because so many of these new (and old) teams AND their drivers just don’t freakin’ GET (still OR yet!) that NASCAR hasn’t changed THAT MUCH — it STILL isn’t all about “finesse” and “give/take” like we’ve been hearing from the many and varied PC/PR-robots (and, especially from the “new-NASCAR-fan” MEDIOTS covering them) of late … ad nauseum.

NASCAR IS (and/or “should” be) still about hard, racin’ is rubbin’, nothin’ but FIRST is winnin’ … RACIN’.

Skinner GETS that. Problem is … no present Cup team wants him as a regular because he’s “too old” … LOL … yeah, right. Might not have enough Legano-type longevity for these teams, granted, but “too old”?

That’s merely a reflection of the times, wherein NASCAR/ISC has FAILED its fan-base as well as its sport, and the teams have followed suit. Now they’re ALLLLL about long-term MARKETABILITY with a YOUNGER demo who’ll continue to follow/buy … never understanding that, at the rate they’re going (especially with this COT-pos?) … already … look at the GRANDSTANDS. It’s been a TREND, and they’ve ridden its wave hard & fast … and they’ve thus lost a lot of the base that not only BUILT them, but would’ve also sustained them when the trendites move on — for surely, they will.

They always do. (Let’s just hope the MEDIOTS will go with them, lol.)

POINT being:
I could be wrong, but I’m just not thinkin’ that Skinner’s merely being called upon for his “engineering” input on this COT-pos, grin … nope.

It is amusing that Skinner can’t get a ride in the cup series, but gets called on as a consultant. In that capacity, he has driven for Bill Davis, Team Red Bull, and now for MWR.

Grumpy agrees that it is about time MWR shakes things up a little. Does anyone but me think that MWR is giving McDowell a ‘timeout’ after the move that triggered the big crash at Watkins Glen?

Mcdowell and Gilliland were both invited to the oval office following that incident. NA$CAR decided that no action would be taken against either driver, concluding that it was just hard racing.