Re: McMurray in.


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> > A year and a half is a lot, I'll grant you. But it's not that
different...
> > in silly season, contacts for next year get signed before the year is
up.
> > Clearly if it was December 2006 you'd be fine with it. In October 2006
> > probably lots of contacts for the 2007 series will be signed. So is
that
> > ok? 2 months before the season ends? If so, how about 6 months? 8?
12?
> > 18? What is the cutoff that doesn't offend your sensitivities? 6 to 12
> > months, it seems. Well, your threshold might be different from somebody
> > else's. I think it's all fair game. If you want to sign a contract
for
> > 2015 today, have at it. You can ask to be released from your current
> > contract, but tough titty if you don't get it. There's nothing to fight
> > about here, just business. McMurray signed for a contract and asked to
be
> > let out. The holder had the choice to let him go or not. He chose to
keep
> > him. Fair and square I say. I don't think that an owner should be able
to
> > put a contract on a man that tells him whether he can talk to somebody
else
> > about a better deal. You don't buy the man, you buy his driving
services.
> > He owes you those, not his soul and all his future prospects. And if
Chip
> > wants to put Jamie on the sideline cause he's a lame duck and keep him
under
> > contract, well that's tough titty for Jamie too, the chance he took by
> > signing early with somebody else. For Chip to be all mad about it,
that's
> > just childish, the man sought a better opportunity and found one. Now
Chip
> > has to decide what's in the best interest of his race team and do it.
> >
> > -Russ.
>
> Very well said, Russ. I think what this whole situation demonstrates is
that
> we've seen a shift (temporary??) from an 'owner's market' to a 'driver's
market'.
> Before the huge expansion of the $$$ involved, owners could and did hold
the reins
> and hire/fire drivers 'at will'. Now some drivers are expecting and
insisting on
> 'more' for themselves. That 'more' may be just salary $$ or bigger cuts
of
> purses/souvenir/appearance $$...mebbe-so time-off, bigger
motorhome...etc., etc.
> And, with the current departures of older drivers, they can make their
> expectations become real.
>
> I'm fully behind the drivers to get what the market will bear.
>
> If a glut of really good drivers ever happens, the owners may get back in
control,
> with the corresponding contract term changes.
>
> --
> Tom in Bristol...betting contracts become *far* more complex!

I agree, let them get what they can. At the same time, some young hot
drivers might just show up that think that $1M to drive a car for a year is
just as good as $3M after 5 years of borrowing money to buy tires so they
could race. Then some of the guys that have convinced themselves they can't
survive on less than $15M a year in total income are going to be out of a
job. Free market.

-Russ.


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