AJ came from the era of -earning- a ride.

When the IRL came to be, AJ was all for it, having guys like Billy Boat, etc in his cars.

Then AJ put non-American/non midget-sprint-champ car-supermodified drivers in his cars....and I lost a lot of respect for him.

Now this BS.

Can you imagine how pissed off AJ would have been 'way back when', if he qualified a car for the 500, and a week before the race, he's told he out......

I've never liked Mario, Michael, or Marco, and this just adds to that for me.

So I guess this proves there is at least 2 definitions for 'Buying a ride'. This would be bad enough if it was a teammate that had to give up the seat, but being 'parked' so a guy from a different team gets to race in a car you qualified, that's asinine.