He kept the interview professional and as impersonal as he could. I think that was Regan's choice not to get too much into that.

Exactly

RedShiftRider Chris Buescher won in the 34 car. Everybody gets lucky a few times

I hope no one likes this comment. LEAVE IT AT 78 LIKES!!!

​@@Yokkablockayea but Regan held off Carl Edwards on a restart for I think 2-3 laps. Chris won because of fog. Totally different situations

Thats why they are changing after 2019

@@Trevor42721 what are they doing

@@b2b545 new cup name and its gonna be a different system... The cup tittle is gonna have many different sponsors on it

@@Trevor42721 It's gonna be called The "NyQuil, Better Get Some Sleep Medicine, Champion Sportswear Cup - Sponsored in part by Capital One Bank - What's In Your Wallet?"

Eli S nascar has gotten to much tech in these cars now that’s what has killed the sport two.. go back to the square body cars from the late 80s lol . Be cool if they did

Ethan White they were supposed to get him after jones went to the 20

What is crazy is that Suarez' sponsor money could have potentially kept the team alive.

@@pacoalonso373 o ok

@@acenace24 yes it would

Yeah better in the long run but they never would have sniffed a championship with him@@acenace24

Willam O'Brien yea but it makes sense. He was paying for that car basically like the engines and chassis so to go out every week and get beat by it, why wouldn’t he? It’s his stuff he’s losing to

Willam O'Brien Joe Gibbs did not kill them, Tony Stewart killed them!

they didnt kill it the sponer killed them by oulling out plus FRR only leases JGR Equpiment

Yeah and 5 hour energy

JGR dug them out of a hole... Visser lost his love for racing.. plain and simple

R.I.P FURNITURE ROW RACING 2005-2018

Can you replu fox sports

I was standing in front of the shop the day before it announced it was closing

Awesome team ! Will miss the little team That could

That had an incredible journey. Man it’s sad to see such a good team in it’s final 2 races.

Idk Player 👊🏻👊🏻

@@MMCS07 I hope elliot can get in and win it.

Go Truex#78! 78 sticker will remain on the rear view window of my car! I hope you get this win at Phoenix today buddy :-)

@@loveoneanotherasihaveloved8327 I bet that sticker was was not there when truex was absolute garbage his entire career lol

@@NocoPBMLS2 Well Tim don't put too much money on that bet. You'll become a very broke individual, I have stuck with Truex every since DEI and MWR Motorsports with a 56 Napa team. I won't post a picture of me standing next to the 56 Napa on Pit Road at Michigan International Speedway in 2010, But I will continue to follow Truex with JGR and the 19 team next year. Enjoy the race today and go Truex and the entire Barney Visser team!

He did get it

Ya Ik @coolofdoom I meant he worked hard for it

Noah The Texan yep I seen it also

Me too

Loosing #78 was like loosing the family pet, life goes on😭

If you have a team that's millions and millions of dallors for just 1 car, most teams don't have that like Joe Gibbs Racing, Hendrick Motorsports, or team Penske, so most teams rely on Sponsors funding teams, 5 Hour energy dropped out saying they don't want to sponsor the 78 for 2019, that's more money that Barney Visser has to keep throwing into the team, does Visser want to keep throwing money away just to support his team? Or does he want to use it to fix his health, help his own life

Sponsorship

Jason Violante It’s very simple. No sponsors, no race team. It sucks but that’s how the sport is unfortunately.

I work on a NHRA top Fuel team. It costs 4 to 5 million a year to run those cars. We got a tour of Stewart-Haas this year and the guy told us for Stewart haas to run all four of their cup teams it 154million a year. And it’s almost sickening

No money

The worst part for me personally is that no one in Denver stepped up to fill the void, that a sponsor couldn't be found. There used to be a time sponsors were fighting to get their name on these cars. That's not the case anymore, that's for sure.

Not necessary, had Suárez went over there JGR would have upped the alliance money even more (with them technically at that point having to support 7 cars) and quite possibly ending Furniture Row sooner.

@@Highline_29_Designs but Arris would had went with Suraez and erik jones left for the 20 so thats why they were suppose to get Daniel

​@@Highline_29_Designs I believe the original plan was to bring Erik into the 20 and put Daniel in the 77 for 1 or 2 years and then move him to the 19. Then most likely they would have rotated in Bell into the 77 and so on as the years passed. I don't think that Barney was ever thinking about 3 teams out of Denver. Not out of the current shop at least...

JGR driver in an FRR car meant JGR had an incentive to provide strong cars at a good rate because FRR was doing Gibbs a favor as a deveopment team. FRR was smart enough to know how to maximize the relationship with their own contributions. Without a development driver to run, the relationship got one-sided.

And he did, and win 4 wins, Richmond, Charlotte, Dover and Sonoma

Abel Ponce De Leon they won’t, 19 is being used

I hope they honor Barney's wishes and retire that number for awhile. It's a special story with a special place in the lore of NASCAR. I wouldn't be opposed to having Toyota keeping it with Levine's if they were to expand and field a competitive car. They (Toyota) helped make it a "famous" number too. It'd be a shame however to give that number to some backmarker to run every week.

ExoticXT well JGR hasn’t announced what number he will be using there. All they announced was that he’s moving over there. But not the number he will be using.

ExoticXT disregard my last message. You are correct on Truex Jr driving the 19

But then again. I’d say they should keep Truex Jr with the number 78. Gotta keep the legacy going with those two together. If they retire the number, good. But I just hope they don’t make the same mistake with the number 3.

They are gone no matter what. In November it's already 2 months too late to plan for 2019. Driver and crew cheif are already employed elsewhere, they'd have to start from scratch all over again and Barney doesn't want to rebuild. I can't blame him for that. It sucks but he honestly did right by his people announcing the closure as early as he did

@@zerodos_02 that is to bad there is one driver out there that could bring a sponsor and is a great driver Carl Edwards

@@mollycaz1 true but he has no interest in coming back. I'm debating how valuable he'd be anymore. I've been pretty niave about how much drivers make and personally from a business standpoint there are so many more avenues to bring eyeballs to your company than spending millions of dollars on a racecar. Sucks to see them go tho.

@@zerodos_02 The way it is going you will have 4 super teams and the rest of the team's will have no chance. The one question I would have why did Barney Visser not put the team up for sale rather than shut it down and not make any money. Funny if Edwards does not retire the 78 team probably is a two-car team which Sanchez in the 77.

@@mollycaz1 there is no money to be made for him honestly. JGR owns the chassis so they cant sell those. They dont have engines, they are in Colorado. All they have to sell is the charter and the assets in the building. Effectively they are selling off what they can after the season but I cant see anyone that would have bought the team for any other reason than a glorified yard sale. The super team argument, this has been discussed for 20 years. I remember people saying that in 1999 and It hasn't gone fully that way. Also, look at the already existing super teams. Hendrick doesnt have 4 fully funded cars. They also released a high cost driver to go young for that reason. Gibbs has struggled getting the 20 fully funded for a couple of years now and let Kenseth walk for the same reason. Penske has pieced together funding to barely get 3 teams together. Roush is well, Roush. And Stewart Haas effectively runs 4 cars with money for only 3 which is why Kurt Busch hasnt been able to get locked in long term. The money isnt there for super teams and smaller teams that use their resources wisely have a place in the sport. I've come around on the idea of moving more to an F1 model and remove part time Cup teams entirely because in my eyes a 34 or 36 car field of fully funded, committed to win teams beats this struggle to get 40 with 8 teams out of it before they've even unloaded. Use ARCA and Xfinity combined to reduce costs, increase a variety of owners and make those the economical series to feel out if you want to move up. FRR did a special special thing. They truly are the biggest underdog in the world doing all they did in 11 years especially in Colorado. Sorry, I may have gone off on a tangent there

FRR didn't switch for 2 years after Kurt left...

Maybe you should learn before speaking... FFR was still Chevrolet while Kurt busch was driving it and then they didnt switch to toyota untill 2016 so thats a 3 year difference

Kurt wanted the big $$$ that Tony was offering. He wasn't going to get that from Barney. That said, he almost stayed with the team anyway. FRR was a good fit for Kurt and he knew it. It's worked out OK for both of them...

You must be new to NASCAR if you didn't already know the situation

What In Carnation? 69 RAMSFAN LOGAN It’s hard to come by when your teams is going to fall apart when your affiliate leaves you and a sponsor that you had trust in leaves the sport. Not to mention it’s hard to gain sponsorship. I mean it took Jimmie Johnson the entire 2018 season to get a sponsor for next year. If it was so easy to get sponsorship, Target, 5 Hour Energy, Lowe’s and plenty of other sponsors would have stayed. Yeah he gave up, but it’s the reason why we can barely get 40 cars to the track anymore. NASCAR is so expensive and they need to trust in sponsors, but sponsors don’t want to pay teams $5 million per race.

How many championships does Kurt have since leaving?

@@hunterfinger exactly

😂😂😂 yea I’m sure Kurt totally wants that daytona500 over the 17races southern 500 coke 600 (one the most dominating performances in the history of the sport) and a championship yup. Kurt totally knows he made the best decision

Kurt has been one of my favorites and even i thought it odd he left. Granted at the time I can understand why, FRR couldn't guarantee him long-term like Gene did (though as we see, not THAT long term...).

@@jr4038 at the time, it was right. Barney couldn't guarantee a long term option. I think he was going to be going on year-to-year, where Gene offered a 4 season deal (turned into 5), a that was also without extra backing at first as well.

Why?