NASCAR Tickets - Earnhardt Ganassi Parks No. 8

The No. 8 Dale Earnhardt Inc. stock car brought immense fame to the great Dale Earnhardt, Jr., but it will not have the same sort of luck for Aric Almirola, who saw his Sprint Cup season cut short earlier this week when his sponsorship money ran out. The Earnhardt Ganassi Racing driver will finish his NASCAR season short at a current number 37 in owner's points, putting another 40 jobs in jeopardy as Almirola now gets to play the waiting game in collecting more sponsorship money to continue his wild ride on the racetrack.

Almirola and EGR knew funding would be tight going into the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, and Almirola had four separate sponsors in his seven races during the '09 season before finally being forced to call it quits. The No. 8 driver hasn't given up completely, though, as he is still under contract with EGR but could talk with other teams about driving should sponsorship money come through. Earnhardt Ganassi Racing president Steve Lauletta recently made a statement regarding the current Almirola situation, saying, "We're talking to a lot of companies. We had a couple of companies with us at Texas. We've been doing this one [race] at a time, two at a time, three at a time, and it's really tough to do that. So we decided not to go to Phoenix and get ourselves to the point where we can get that sponsorship that will believe in Aric and market around Aric and help our team. Once we do that, we'll be back on with the 8 on the track."

While this waiting game is undoubtedly difficult for Almirola to undergo, the stock car racer has no other option than to spend valuable time searching out sponsorship money before getting back behind the wheel for another Sprint Cup race. If his season is indeed done for good, Almirola will have concluded the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with a number of consistent finishes, as he crossed the finish line at Daytona in 30th place, was 35th at Fontana, 39th at Las Vegas, 21st at Atlanta, 35th at Bristol, 37th at Martinsville and 33rd at Texas. Fans with NASCAR tickets got to see the third EGR car zoom around the track seven times this season, and hopes are high that Aric Almirola will return for next racing season, if not sooner.

Almirola is a native of Tampa, Florida and has been racing competitively since age eight, when he got behind the wheel of a go-kart for the first time. In 2004, Almirola made his NASCAR debut piloting late models in North Carolina for Joe Gibbs Racing, and in 2005 he switched to the Craftsman Truck Series of Morgan-Dollar Motorsports, where he kicked up dust and eventually got noticed, propelling him into the Busch Series. After 2007, Aric Almirola scored a ride with Dale Earnhardt Inc. in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, where he shared the No. 8 United States Navy Chevrolet with Mark Martin. His run in 2009 with the combined Earnhardt Ganassi Racing was short but sweet, but racing fans can be sure they haven't seen the last of Aric Almirola. The show must go on for now, and NASCAR tickets will be available online regardless of whether or not Earnhardt Ganassi Racing's No. 8 comes back this season or not.

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