Meet Tim Brown, NASCAR owner

[Kirkendall]

Tim Brown, who starred as a wide receiver first at Notre Dame and then with the Oakland Raiders, will have a NASCAR team next year, featuring a technical alliance with Roush Racing. Still to be decided are a driver, crew chief, sponsor and even which series to run in, but Brown aims to have Tim Brown Racing on track in 2006. “It is our intention to run the Cup series. We have a very short time to get that done,” Brown said Sunday morning.

“If that’s going to happen, it’s going to happen in the next 45 to 60 days. So we’re going to pushing very hard to get that done. If we end up in the Truck series or the Busch Series, that would be good, too.” Roush said he was enthusiastic about the partnership. “We would not presume to tell Tim what he needed to do or what he had to do, but we’ve certainly made our share of mistakes in the 18 years that we’ve been involved in the business, and we could show him where some of the hard points are,” said Roush.

“We’ll have a great relationship.” Roush, who has some of the deepest sponsor roots of any team owner, may well prove to be Brown’s lifeline to sponsor dollars. Money, arguably the single most critical element in racing, has been noticeably absent from other minority race teams, including the now-defunct Washington-Erving Motorsports and BelCar Motorsports, the latter of which was owned by Sam Belnavis, who later became chief diversity officer for Roush Racing. (Speed Channel)(8-8-2005)

[UofLnMU]

Wow. I can't say that I really saw anything like that coming. That may give me half a reason to give the proverbial crap about Roush.

[BengalszoneBilly]

Coming in with the help of Nascar Powerhouse Roush Racing will be a huge advantage compared to a team trying to break in all on their own. I hope they both prosper from this alliance. I know Nascar is going to.

The more they diversify, the bigger the sport becomes!

[JeffEarnhart]

Told you boys NASCAR was better. Now you got guys that was playin football a few years and now converted. I don't know who this guy is but at least he aint in the wrong sport nomore.

NASCAR!!!

[walshfan]

Tim Brown ( a very small minority owner ) in and Kurt Busch out..yeah Roush has it together allright.....NOT!!!!!