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As steve and brad's nephew, I know how bad they hated making this decision and you can see it in their eyes that the hunger is not gone, however, in the end you have to realize as I did in a similar situation at the end of 07', that it is truely just a very expensive highly passionate hobby. One reason why owning a sprint car gets difficult is in most cases people run a successful business to get the opportunity to do something like this, then the more and more commitment it requires to do it right, the more and more it takes away from what really pays the bills. Even though they have ran extremely well the costs most generally far outways the earnings at the end of the day, even when they are able to do there own motors and many other things. There will always be different views from different people on how much you will give up to race, but sometimes as bad as it hurts the priorities of life have to be wrote out again and think about providing for family and comfortably retiring maybe one day. I know steve and brad will enjoy an outlet in there talents helping other teams as I do and being a dominant force in the s.c. series with DD along with their dad Galen. I think Jon will eventually get comfortable in another car it's just a matter of finding a crew chief he clicks with like he did so well with the boys, the baldwin car is by no means a junker their just missing a little piece to the puzzle right now, but it's not like they are severely struggling he's just not dominating. Just want to say hell of a job to steve and brad the last few years, really the last ten years, and hope everyone can accept the 53 not competing for the time being.
Sincerely, Jared Fox
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