"Hendrick Motorsports may have Dale Earnhardt in their stable, but they won't be able to buy his trademark No. 8.
Dale Earnhardt Inc. will not be allowed to sell the No. 8 to Hendrick or any other team, according to a report on the Charlotte Observer Web site.
According to the report, spokesman Ramsey Poston reiterated that NASCAR owns and assigns all car numbers and said a team cannot sell numbers on their own accord.
'NASCAR owns the numbers and licenses them to teams on an annual basis,' Poston said in the report. 'A team may allow another team to use the number for that year pending NASCAR's approval.'
Poston said in the report that each year a team submits the numbers it wants to use. Numbers a team has previously been using are usually reissued. If a team gives up a number, it returns to NASCAR for reassignment. Selling the numbers is not an option."
Seems Michael Waltrip said this last week on 'Inside Nextel Cup' on Speed Channel. I was waiting for the attempt at money to change hands for the number to see if it would happen. I wonder if NASCAR was wanting their piece of the pie. Maybe they will need it to fund the ATT suite they are doing?
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