This move makes no sense whatsoever... esopcailly after Stewart having come back and won the Title. I'd bet a sizable amount of money this doesn't happen after it's all said and done and cooler heads prevail. 

Stewart has a huge ego, but he knows what he's doing. If he's changing crew chiefs I'd imagine it's for the best. Grubb has championship and regardless of wether he stays at SHR or goes elsewhere he will his future is very bright. I do think had it not began to rain whoever made that call would have been responsible for losing that race.

HMS wins another Championship. Love it. And Mikeyfan I am sure that right now Stewart doesn't care that he is not a "true driver/owner" in your books, he just won the Championship and took 5 out of the 10 Chase races.

Haven't ever been a big Stewart fan but glad that the Slaver Edwards will have to wait to get his first.

This call baffles me, and I am a SMOKE fan all the way.  The only scenario's I see is maybe Zippy is coming over, or Addington as speculated.  I sure would like to see Grubb stay, maybe moved over to the 39 car, where the performance just doesn't quite seem to be there on a consistent basis, sure he's made the chase, but when he is in there, he's a non-factor.

Mikeyfan, I normally enjoy your posts, but have you fallen off of your rocker?  How is SHR that much different than TRD all but running the show for MWR?  The only true Toyota team that up until this year was all in house was JGR.  And I think Toyota put some pressure on them to switch to the TRD engine.

Back to the issue at hand.  From what I take of it, the article just says that Grubb won't be back with the 14 team.  However that leaves alot of room for speculation.  He could be headed back to HMS.  However one could wonder if he won't be at SHR as a part time crew chief for the Danica Patrick show when she runs a handful of Sprint Cup races, if the rumors are true that SHR will provide her a ride, still though I go back to my original point that he'd be a better fit with the 39 car......

Good for Grubb!  If my boss told me in June that I would be replaced in December, I would have said-no-no-no-prepare my severance papers because I won't be here tomorrow.   My efforts would not longer contribute to his successes and wealth at that point and Stewart would not have won the title.  Grubb stuck it out, but he SHOULD leave because he could be told the same thing next year or the year after.

Rumor, is Grubb will go back to HMS, Tony's true owner, and become the crew cheif of the 48 with Chad being kicked upstairs as competition director. 


Maybe one day Tony can call himself a true owner, that would be the day, he quits relying on HMS to provide him everything, engines, chassis, practice data, parts, crew chiefs, crew men, everything except the drivers.  When that happens he can then be recognized as a true driver/owner.


But mark this down,  When Tony retires from cup SHR will sell out to another HMS puppet to run the races.       

You guys are blind if you didn't notice that race was won completely by Stewart and he makes the calls 99% of the time. The fuel mileage call is one of the few Grubb made during the year and it came awful close to costing Tony if not for the rain, who knows how close it would have been.

The Season is very long, I am sure at some point in the season when things weren't going as well they realized that they didn't work that well together. For all know someone else might have been behind the scenes make the calls during the week. If Steve Addington comes in I think that would be great for Tony nor would I be surprised if Zippy ended his relationship with the #20 Car. Changes need to be made to that program. Lets face it having a 20 year old do Home Depot Commericals is a nightmare for marking, Tony's Commericals with them made sense and were somewhat funny (people remember them) Joey and he commericals blow I could also see Gibbs asking them to leave and picking up Rudy.

Grubb is not going to be leaving the organization, he will take some of Tony's duties as the owner so Tony can just race. If you watched the race and the trophy presentation you all ready knew grubb was going nowhere.

Addington should be the perfect fit for Stewart, he the crew chief that specializes in egos. Grubb will end up better in the long run, especially now that he holds the championship card. Someday he thank Stewart for booting him.