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17 Nov 2014, 19:00 (Ref:3475893) | #1 | ||
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Ross Stone To Leave Erebus!!
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17 Nov 2014, 19:09 (Ref:3475896) | #2 | |
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That's shame, wonder will he be back.
Probably has a no compete clause? Gardening leave? Would be nice to hear something positive from Erebus... |
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No real surprise... it was the inference given when the original sale of SBR went through, I had thought, that Ross would do two years within the new Erebus structure, and then be retiring, or whatnot.
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Nothing new here, it was part of the sale arrangements 2 years ago, and was made public at the time, so the only surprise would have been if he changed his mind and stuck around.
Good luck to him, I hope he really enjoys the Milford Track, and time with his family. He ( and Jim ) have had a stellar career, and the sport is better off for having had them in the game for so long. |
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Off to hook up again with MA at Penske / DJR
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He worked wonders with both DJR and Marcos.
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Interesting that there is no talk of permanently leaving the sport. So that suggests once he's gone for his stroll through the countryside he will turn up next year somewhere? Or at least 2016?
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Take a year off and buy it back at the end of next year?
Are Erebus still taking ownership of the #9 REC? |
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Probably will appear at another team just like his mate Shane.
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My thoughts exactly GTR, reunites with DJR, Ambrose, Ford...can't hurt to have an experienced man lurking in the back of the shed. I don't recall there ever being bad blood between DJ and the stones...also sees good support for matt stone racing too with their ford program.
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19 Nov 2014, 10:19 (Ref:3476503) | #20 | |
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Was it just the opportunity to have there own team that caused them to leave then?
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Not a bad thing for Erebus. SBR was hardly competing consistently at the pointy end when Erebus came along. If anything the Erebus takeover probably flattered a diminishing SBR engineering force.
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Well in the season before Erebus took over (2012), they got all three cars into the top 10 in the championship, with at least one car in the top 5 in just about every race.
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Alan Jones had big money backing from Phillip Morris for 1996 and the Stones had a chance to half-own the team, it was the logical next step for them. The deal was announced early enough (from the DJR/Stone side anyway) that it didn't leave DJR in too much of a lurch It got even better for the Stones in 1998 when AJ wanted out and the Stones bought out Jones' share of AJR, thus being re-named Stone Brothers Racing. |
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Nonsense. The two years prior to the purchase they were third in the teams championship, their best two years in the last 5 or 6 years...
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Alan Jones poached them, purely and simply: I'm sure I've seen an interview with Ross where he said that the offer of equity in the team was too good an offer to refuse (the past couple of years would be proof enough that he knew what he was talking about!). I remember Dick Johnson being less than ecstatic about losing the Stones Brains Trust, off the back of some very good seasons, but that is the extent of the ill-will I think. And given that DJR never looked quite as pacy again, one would have to say that Dick knew what he was losing, despite some churlishness...
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