Thread: JUUNIORIDE JOHNSON: 1991 – Bodine, marliin Unite suured lootused

Tabeli 1991, Junior Johnson tagasi kahe meeskonna tegevuse tsitaatides Sterling Marlin toodi teine juht kohvi Nagus sponsor Maxwell House.

1990 Lõpus pärast Geoff Bodine aitas Junior Johnson ja kaastöötajad on parim hooaeg 1986 otsustati anda Bodine teise hooaja taga Johnson's lähistel.
Kuid suuri märkida toimunud 1991.
NASCAR Winston Cup võidusõidu lisakorra konkurents ja meeskonnad maailma, kallim olid skrambleerimise sponsorlus, mis võimaldaks leida neil pidada tehnoloogia sammu, muu hulgas edendades tüüp.
Kui teised olid teinud enne otsustati moodustada Johnson, teda selleks, et ohjeldada kulutuste teine meeskond. Ta sama asja teinud ja oli keskel-autojuhtidega Neil Bonnett ndate ja Darrell Waltrip.
Johnson leidnud oma teise meeskonna sponsor. Milline teadis draiver tahtis Ta-Vaata, kes oli keeldunud teda kaks aasta varem.
Johnson uskus siiralt, et konkreetne vedurijuht võib saavutada staatuse Eesti Idol Junior Johnson ja kaastöötajad. Nii palju ta tegi pakkumisi ilus.
Nad ei tegele.
Nii 1991 Johnson oli tugineda tema teine valik, Sterling Marlin, ja vaata, kui ta ja hδsti Bodine soovitud.
Juunioride panuse saidi iga ilmub teine Reede kogu hooaja.
Ma see olen öelnud mitu korda, et, erinevalt minu senise tegevuse lepingulise I allkirjastatud Geoff Bodine ühe lepingu aastase-1990.
Mul oli uuendamiseks ja minu jah, Geoff's maine ja põikpäine vastupidi oli EKKM pistmist.
Aga koos produktiivne ja olnud oleme 1990. Calendar sõitu ja võitnud Oleme valmis kolmas punkt edetabel. Näha oli parim juunior Johnson ja kaastöötajad oli teinud kuna Darrell oli meiega 1986, tema viimase meistrivõistlustel hooajal.
Nii et ma otsustasin anda aastaks üheks veel Geoff.
Ent see ei ole suuri muutusi.
Ma tagasi läksin kahe auto protsessigrupiga. Ma tundsin ma pidin seda tegema.
Ühe hooaja Pärast Johnson ainuke juht Geoff Bodine pidi olema üks kahest 1991 olukorda, et ta ei meeldinud üldse.

Mul on probleem mõned asjad. Ta oli jõudnud punkti, kus üks auto meeskond oli raskesti rahastamiseks. Autor et ma mõtlen, oli raske teha kõike tuli teha hoida, et võidusõit.
Sa pidid põhjalikult testida, konjunktiivse tuli teadustööd ja teha arengut. Sa võid mida teha üks meeskond.
Seal oli lihtsalt nii palju 16.05 oli teha, aga ühe autoga ei saa endale neid.
Ma põhjendatud, et kaks autot võiks esitatud kulud. Üks meeskond teadus-ja arendustegevuse võiks tööd teha ja selle edastama tulemused teistele, näiteks.
Mis Mõlemad meeskonnad annaks hinnaga üks kasu.
Vt pidi olema poole minna. Ja ma tunnistama, ma kirjas näinud päris päris hästi töötada Rick Hendrick võistkonda.
Iroonilisel kombel oli Hendrick auto korraldust kahe Geoff jäänud minuga. Ma teadsin paganama päris hästi, et ta ei kavatse olla õnnelik.
Sel ajal tahtsin mõned draiverid osa kahe auto meeskond. Tean, et asjad on muutunud aasta aga tagasi konjunktiivse rangelt jaoks oli go-go no-no.
Isegi koos omaosalusega vajab täiendavat meeskond auto kahe sponsor. Mul oli Budweiser, kuid ma pidin täiendav rahastamine olema.
Ma sain selle Maxwell House kohv kokku tagasi teine Junior Johnson ja sidus meeskond.
Nüüd mul vaja draiverit.
Ma teadsin ma tahtsin, kes. Mul oli püüdnud kõvasti saada teda vaid aasta varem.
Nagu teised jäin paljud paeluvad Alan Kulwicki.
Kui ma pakkusin sõita enne talle hooaja 1990 ta keeldus, sest ta omada jätkata ja tahtis juhtida enda meeskonda.
Ta tahtis ta ja teeb mida kursis NAE seda edu. Ta ütles konjunktiivse, kui ta et talle oleks ka minuga quitter ei tunne.
Nii Alan hoida teed oma ja ta tegi seda asja väga päris hästi. 1990 Ta võitis esimese leitud karjääri oma võistluse ja lõpetas üheksanda punkti edetabel.
Ma olin näinud teda alarahastatuks meeskonna edu saavutada. Arvestades, et ma teadsin, et ta oli kõvasti tööd, määrata noormees.
Võta, ja anda talle veidi toimuvad kõike pidi ta ja ära pikkuseks, sul superstaari.
Tundsin, et mul oli suurepärane võimalus tuua Alan Junior Johnson ja kaastöötajad. 1990 Lõpus ta oli hädas, et leida sponsorlus ja tema meeskond pidi olema hädas tsitaatides 1991 raha ei leitud.
Tegin mitmeid ilus pakkumisi Alan. Nii palju tegelikult, vt jõudnud punkti, kus mul oli sponsorlus ja minu pilk aru, palju tsitaatides raha võiks lause juht.
Seal oli piirata võiks lause. Seega pidin vastumeelselt Alan loobuma ja ma registreerusin Sterling marliin.
Irooniliselt, Alan kandekuupäevadel keeldus mulle põhjus oli, et ta oli kindel, ta oli vooderdatud kuni 1991, kellega ta tema veel võiks sõltumatu viisil sponsor.
Kui ta ütles mulle, et mul oli ausalt öeldes. "No, Alan," ütlesin, "sa ei ole seda sponsor."
Alan nõudis ta tegi.
Ma püüdsin veenda, et ta ei teda teinud. Minuga juba allkirjastanud rahastaja Maxwell House. Mul oli nendega leping. Ma ei tea, Alan kunagi uskunud meeles.
Aga sain aru Alan seisukohta. Ta arvesoovitus, oli tahtsin ja teha vaja raha tema enda asi täiesti loogiline.
Alan ei jätkas ja rassi lyrics sponsor saada 1991.
Geoff ja head asjad loodame pardal Sterling 91 hooajal. Pikkuseks, seal oli häid hetki aga ka numbreid tähistab kindlasti Junior Johnson ja kaastöötajad oli kõike muud kui hea aasta.
Näha ei saa olla hea hooaja tipphetk minu kuna, oli süüdistustega poolt võidusõiduks ülepaisutatud jälle NASCAR, The Winston mootoriga.
Kuidas ma võis olla ülepaisutatud mootori kui meie Chevrolet lõpetas 14^th 20-auto välja?
NASCAR peatada juht meeskonna Tim Brewer ja meeles seatud võistlussõitu.
Näha oli farss.
Lahtiste uste ja tulemused saab hooaja 1991 tegi mind tunne, et äkki mul oli tulemas rea lõpuni.
Tootlikkust ei olnud nii suur kui näha oli olnud. Olid suuremad Kulud. Poliitikas oli lopsakalt. Ja näha ei olnud lõbus.
Kuid konjunktiivse tegin mõned muudatused 1991, mis võimaldas Junior Johnson ja sidusettevõtete kohta mis võtmeroll langenud ühe NASCAR suurim ja ajaloo kõige märgatavam otsas aastaaega.

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.