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Time for me to chime in. Overall, I would have to say that hired guns are really a positive aspect for the sport because it makes the competition all that better. Competition is what NASCAR is all about. And what other top series provides the opportunity for specialists to do one-offs? I think it provides interesting scenarios like seeing how Ron Fellows stacks up against the best NASCAR road racers and vice versa. However, my feeling might change if one of these specialists muck up someone's championship hunt going for a win with a stupid on-track move. I also feel that in many cases, I think if NASCAR Owner X thinks road racer X is good enough to put in his car for one race, why not all of them if he is really that good? But this is becoming more commonplace. It is happening in CART as well when drivers with road racing background have been subsituted with experienced oval track drivers for the oval races. This almost was the case for Chip Ganassi's team at Indy this year when he went after Stewart and Vasser but he ended up building a teams for his regular drivers as well.
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