JR Motorsports to Cup?

JR Motorsports started its Nationwide Series program just a couple of years ago, but owner Dale Earnhardt, Jr figures the team may be ready to make the jump to Sprint Cup if the right opportunities arose.

“I used to say no way, no way. But it’s almost as expensive to run in the Nationwide Series. And their going to bring a CoT in and we won’t be able to race in the Nationwide Series with the CoT probably. That’ll just be too expensive to switch all that over,” Earnhardt said at weekly top 12 drivers press conference. “If the right opportunity comes along with the right sponsorship and driver, we’d love to do it. And it would cost the same amount of money to do that, as it is to run the Nationwide Series. It’s harder to get sponsorships. And the CoT program is going to be too expensive for me to justify creating a whole new program with CoT stuff, so I’d just as soon go into the Cup Series or get out of the Nationwide Series altogether.”

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