Dale Earnhardt Merges with Ginn Racing

The deal involving the merger of Dale Earnhardt Incorporated with Ginn Racing is set to be announced Wednesday, July 25th and has been confirmed to the AP as of Tuesday evening.

As part of the deal, DEI Inc.  will take on the No. 01 Chevy, – driven by  Mark Martin and greenhorn Aric Almirola. DEI inc will also take Ginn car No. 14’s crew (driven by two time Daytona 500 hundred winner Sterling Martin)  along with the 14 points already earned by Ginn Racing and apply them to DEI’s No. 15 – Paul Menard.

The added points now guarantee Menard’s position inside the top 35 beginning with this week’s field.

DEI will still be running run Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the No. 8 and Martin Truex Jr. in the No. 1 car. which  are both  both owned by Dale’s Stepmother – Teresa Earnhardt.

Tony Kanaan – Firestone Indy 200

Team Andretti Green looked good in the first 30 laps with Kanaan and Franchitti exchanging first place a few times before Tony Kanaan did a half-spin and made contact. He hit the outside retaining wall at the exit of Turn 2 and climbed from the car with no injury other than to his car. I attempted to find some stats on operating costs of Indy Car teams but couldn’t find anything worth posting.

If you’re not a follower of Indy Car theres a cool explanation of how Downforce works at Indycar.com .

Anyone know where to find Indy Car Cost, team costs etc..?