Fil: JUNIOR JOHNSON: 1991-Bodin, Marlin unir amb esperances

Dins 1991, Junior Johnson va retornar a una equipa de dos operació quan Sterling Marlin va ser portat damunt mentre segon director d'orquestra amb Cafè de Casa del Maxwell com el patrocinador.

Al final de 1990, Geoff Bodine després va ajudar: Junior Johnson i Associa tenir la seva estació de millor llavors ençà 1986, va ser decidit per donar una altra estació de Bodin darrere de Ford Johnson.
Però els canvis grans van va passar pel 1991.
En l'altament competitiu que més cotxes, món de NASCAR Winston Copa clàssiques, els equipa eren lluitant per trobar el patrocini de nosaltres mateixos ens sobreestimar els permetria per mantenir ritme amb avançar entre altres coses, tecnologia.
Mentre fet abans havien altres li, Johnson va decidir formar un segon equipar per tal de reduir despeses. Hola hagi fet la mateixa cosa en el mig-/ u201880s amb directors Neil Bonnett Darrell (i) Waltrip.
Johnson va trobar un patrocinador pel seu segon equip. Va sabre quin director d'orquestra va voler/u2013 el que Hola havia rebutjat li dos anys més d'hora.
Sincerament Johnson cregut el podria una particular orquestra apareixent superstar amb estat amb data Junior Johnson i Associa. Així va fer moltes més coses maques ofertes.
No van treballar.
Bronzejat per 1991, Johnson va haver al qual la seva segona d'en elecció, Sterling Marlin, vaig veure només sóc ell bé actuaria Bodin.
Les contribucions de lloc Junior Apareixerà cada altre divendres per tot l ' Estació.
Ell seva vegada més dit allò, concretament una diferència de les meves pràctiques contractuals anteriors, Geoff Bodine vaig signar una ONU anys dins d'un tracte 1990.
Vaig tenir les meves i raons, sí, Geoff reputació com tossut contrari em va tenir alguna cosa per fer amb ell.
Però junt havíem estat productius que 1990 dins. Vam guanyar tres maleïx i en el tercer acabat punt taula de posicions. Millor de el allò època Junior Johnson i Associa Hola havia fet de llavors ençà Darrell època amb nosaltres dins el 1986, el seu durar estació de campionat.
Així vaig decidir donar Geoff ONU altre qualsevol.
Però Hola Hola hauria canvis grans.
Anava a retornar a una operació de dos cotxes. Sentia jo va haver de fer tan.
Després les Nacions Unides condimenta mentre el únic conductor de Johnson, Geoff Bodine va ser requerit per ser ONU de 1991, dins de dos una elaboració li que no va en agradar absolut.

Època no-Hola ONU problema amb unes quantes coses. Hola hagi assolit el punt a l'ONU equipar època difícil de cotxes d'un finançar. Per aquell significo sigui difícil de fer tot vas haver de fer per mantenir amunt dins enrere.
Et Va haver d'extensament al qual vas haver de fer, recerca i desenvolupament. Podries cap amb dotar les Nacions Unides.
Hola Hola havia només tantes vas no haver de fer coses, tanmateix, les Nacions Unides d'aparcament es podria un permetre per fer-los.
Raonar amb que Vaig quotes despeses de cotxes podrien ser contingudes. ONU equipar podria una recerca d'actuar desenvolupament de feina que els resultats a informar l'altre, per exemple.
Telesquí donaria ambdós tots els equipa al cost d'un beneficis.
El Va haver d'anar de la manera. Jo Hola havia vist admeto treballi força bé estic amb Rick Hendrick equipa.
Irònicament, sigui ONU Hendrick arranjament de dos cotxes que Geoff deixat per unir-me. Vaig sabre cap bé estic maleït vagi a ser les barcelonines.
En aquell temps pocs directors van voler una part d'un dotar de dos cotxes. Sé les coses han canviat sobre els anys però dóna suport un llavors sigui ONU estrictament, no-gorra per Nacions Unides anar-anar.
I tot la costa compartir amb aletes ONU dotar de dos cotxes necessita un altre patrocinador. Vaig haver-Hola vaig haver al qual però Budweiser de finançament altre.
Vaig aconseguir quan El Cafè de Casa del Maxwell acordat per donar suport una ONU segon Junior Johnson i Associa equipar.
Ara vaig necessitar un director d'orquestra.
Voler de vaig sabre vaig. Hola havia provat dur d'aconseguir-li només ONU cap més d'hora.
Agradar nou cicle que seguirà altres vaig verb quedar: intrigat per Alan Kulwicki.
Quan li vaig Estáis ONU passeig abans de la estació de 1990 va rebutjar va voler perquè per posseir, em passeig pel, seu equipar propi.
Va voler cap amunt de quin faci vaig veure ell a través d'èxit. Va dir si llavors em va unir li faci ONU com aquest quitter.
Així que va Alan mantenir fer la seva cosa ell ell bastant bé estic. 1990 va guanyar Dins la seva primera cursa de carrera vaig classificació de acabat del novè en el punt.
Hola havia vist li aconseguir èxit amb les Nacions Unides equipar sota finançat. Donat, vaig saber sigui ONU dur-laborable, va determinar casa jove.
Agafes allò que donar-li ONU poc temps per a un de tot va haver de fer al qual jo bé estic, desenes superestrella de les Nacions Unides.
Sentia jo va tenir una possibilitat d'excel Quaresma · de portar Alan un Junior Johnson i Associa. Al final de 1990, lluiti per trobar el patrocini vaig equipar el seu anava a ser dins problema comensals dels si per 1991 no podria un ser trobat.
Vaig fer diverses ofertes maques un Alan. Nou cicle que seguirà, de fet, punt de el de assolir va a vaig haver del meu patrocini al qual vaig representar efectivament comensals podria un conductor de les Nacions Unides de pagar.
Hola Hola havia ONU límit podria pagar un. Així vaig haver de mala gana de deixar damunt Alan al qual vaig jo van signar Sterling Marlin.
Irònicament, les Nacions Unides de les raons Alan em va rebutjar època sigui segur va tenir un patrocinador alineat per quin 1991 pugui continuar, amb les seves maneres independents.
Quan em va dir vaig haver de sincer. /u201cNo, Alan/u201d, vaig dir, / u201cno desenes aquell patrocinador. / u201d
Alan insistir que va va fer.
Vaig intentar persuadir-li que ell no. Aquell patrocinador Maxwell, Casa, ja Hola havia signat amb mi Vaig tenir ONU contracte. amb ells. No sóc Alan segur mai em va creure.
Però vaig entendre la posició d'Alan. Senti ell va tenir els comensals va necessitar em va fer voler la seva/u2013 perfectament pròpia lògica cosa.
Alan va aconseguir un patrocinador he continuat per córrer dins el 1991.
Amb Geoff Sterling un bord esperava per el de en ossos coses m ' 91 estació. Bé sóc, Hola Hola havia alguns bons moments, però certament els van indicar: números Junior Johnson i Associa tingut qualsevol cosa però ONU cap bo.
El No olla ser una estació bona quan el meu destacat punt època acusat per Nacions Unides policia més, NASCAR, per les Nacions Unides amb córrer sobredimensionat motor al Winston.
Com ell tingut podria una ONU sobredimensionat motor quan el nostre Chevrolet va acabar: 14^th En un campament de cotxes 20?
NASCAR gorra de tripulació suspesa Tim Brewer jo em per quatre malediccions.
Sigui una farsa.
Que, jo els resultats de la 1991 estació, em va fer aquesta venia potser gorra al final de la línia.
La productivitat no va ser tan alt mentre Hola hagi estat. Costos eren Els més OAB. Política, a mi, era galopant. (I) no va ser gaire divertit.
Però llavors vaig fer canvia al final de alguns 1991 van permetre que Junior Johnson i Associa per tenir una en clau funció quin baixat mentre ONU del té més gran, jo més notables, estacions en història NASCAR.

Attachment 3361In 1991, Junior Johnson returned to a two-team operation when Sterling Marlin was brought on as second driver with Maxwell House Coffee as the sponsor.

At the end of 1990, after Geoff Bodine helped Junior Johnson & Associates have its best season since 1986, it was decided to give Bodine another season behind Johnson’s Fords.
But big changes happened for 1991.
In the highly competitive, and more expensive, world of NASCAR Winston Cup racing, teams were scrambling to find the type of sponsorship that would allow them to keep pace with advancing technology, among other things.
As others had done before him, Johnson decided to form a second team in order to curb expenses. He had done the same thing in the mid-‘80s with drivers Neil Bonnett and Darrell Waltrip.
Johnson found a sponsor for his second team. He knew which driver he wanted – the one that had refused him two years earlier.
Johnson sincerely believed that particular driver could achieve superstar status with Junior Johnson & Associates. So he made many handsome offers.
They didn’t work.
So for 1991, Johnson had to rely on his second choice, Sterling Marlin, and see just how well he and Bodine would perform.
Junior’s contributions to site will appear every other Friday throughout the season.
I’ve said more than once that, unlike my previous contractual practices, I signed Geoff Bodine to a one-year deal in 1990.
I had my reasons and, yes, Geoff’s reputation as headstrong and contrary had something to do with it.
But together we had been productive and in 1990. We won three races and finished third in the point standings. That was the best Junior Johnson & Associates had done since Darrell was with us in 1986, his last championship season.
So I decided to give Geoff another year.
But there would be big changes.
I was going to return to a two-car operation. I felt I had to do so.
Attachment 3362After one season as Johnson’s only driver, Geoff Bodine was required to be one of two in 1991, a situation that he didn’t like at all.

I was having a problem with a few things. It had reached the point where a one-car team was difficult to finance. By that I mean it was difficult to do everything you had to do to keep up in racing.
You had to test extensively, you had to do research and development. You could not do that with one team.
There were just so many things you had to do, however, one car could not afford to do them.
I reasoned that with two cars expenses could be contained. One team could perform research and development work and report the results to the other, for example.
That would give both teams all the benefits at the cost of one.
It had to be the way to go. And I admit I had seen it work pretty well with Rick Hendrick’s teams.
Ironically, it was a Hendrick two-car arrangement that Geoff left to join me. I knew darn well that he wasn’t going to be happy.
At that time few drivers wanted to be a part of a two-car team. I know things have changed over the years but back then, it was strictly a no-no for a go-go.
Even with cost sharing a two-car team needs an additional sponsor. I had Budweiser but I had to have additional funding.
I got it when Maxwell House Coffee agreed to back a second Junior Johnson & Associates team.
Now I needed a driver.
I knew who I wanted. I had tried hard to get him just a year earlier.
Like so many others I remained intrigued by Alan Kulwicki.
When I offered him a ride before the 1990 season he refused because he wanted to continue to own, and drive, for his own team.
He wanted to keep up what he was doing and see it through to success. He said then that if he joined me it would make him feel like a quitter.
So Alan kept doing his thing and he did it quite well. In 1990 he won his first career race and finished ninth in the point standings.
I had seen him achieve success with an under-funded team. Given that, I knew he was a hard-working, determined young man.
You take that and give him a little time off from everything he had to do and, well, you’ve got a superstar.
I felt I had an excellent chance to bring Alan to Junior Johnson & Associates. At the end of 1990, he was struggling to find sponsorship and his team was going to be in trouble if the money for 1991 couldn’t be found.
I made several handsome offers to Alan. So many, in fact, it reached the point where I had to look at my sponsorship and figure how much money I could pay a driver.
There was a limit I could pay. So I had to reluctantly give up on Alan and I signed Sterling Marlin.
Ironically, one of the reasons Alan refused me was that he was certain he had a sponsor lined up for 1991, with which he could continue his independent ways.
When he told me that I had to be honest. “No, Alan,” I said, “you do not have that sponsor.”
Alan insisted he did.
I tried to persuade him that he didn’t. That sponsor, Maxwell House, had already signed with me. I had a contract with them. I’m not sure Alan ever believed me.
But I understood Alan’s position. He felt he had the money he needed and wanted to do his own thing – perfectly logical.
Alan did get a sponsor and continued to race in 1991.
With Geoff and Sterling on board I was hoping for good things in the ’91 season. Well, there were some good moments, but certainly the numbers indicated Junior Johnson & Associates had anything but a good year.
It can’t be a good season when my highlight was being accused by NASCAR, once again, for racing with an oversized engine at The Winston.
How could I have had an oversized engine when our Chevrolet finished 14^th in a 20-car field?
NASCAR suspended crew chief Tim Brewer and me for four races.
It was a farce.
That, and the results of the 1991 season, made me feel that perhaps I was coming to the end of the line.
Productivity wasn’t as high as it had been. Costs were higher. Politics, to me, was rampant. And it wasn’t any fun.
But then I made some changes at the end of 1991 that allowed Junior Johnson & Associates to have a key role in what has gone down as one of the greatest, and most remarkable, seasons in NASCAR history.