So what’s this about 4 car team limits?

Yeah,  I know it hasn’t even happened.  Kasey Kahne supposebly signed with Hendrick Motorsports but there is an issue with the deal.  Mark Martin, surprise, surprise.  He still has one more year left on his contract and plans to retire afterwards.

So the rumor spreading around the world wide web is that Kahne will go to a third Stewart-Haas Racing team until Martin departs and opens up the 5 car for Kahne.   At the beginning of this season,  Jack Roush had to let go of one of his teams and drivers as NASCAR forced a four car policy on the teams.   Well I guess Rick Hendrick has once again learned how to get out without being noticed by the officials.  You can say what you want to people, SHR may not have the Hendrick Motorsports title but it is the same organization. 

I think a lot of people expected Kahne to make his departure fr om Richard Petty Motorsports at the end of this season.  It just didn’t seem as if he was happy where he was at.  But if Hendrick places him at SHR only to pull him back in to the 5 car the following season(2012).   It just shows that there is a monopoly going on with Hendrick adding spair teams to get more cars in the field.  If NASCAR does not catch on, we may have a full field of Hendrick Chevrolets to deal with.

Inside the problem is that there are a lot of people that knew this was coming before we even discussed it.  Rick Hendrick is no fool, and when Stewart got moved out of the Chevrolet camp, they had to come up with a way to bring him back on board.  Stewart was racing for Gibbs and Toyota and the sight was not pleasant.   Maybe it is time that Jack Roush plays the same monopoly and adds more and more cars to keep going along with Hendrick Motorsports.