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Cary Agajanian.
PRI: How about your association with Mike Curb? I understand you and Mike are on to something new in race driver investment and marketing.
Agajanian: Yes, we are. Glad you asked. Right now, Mike and I are putting parts of our operation together, meaning some of Curb merges with some of MMI resulting in Curb Agajanian Performance Group. Curb and I have continued to support a lot of different teams, but what we are developing now is a support system with young drivers with Curb Records as a major sponsor. We’ll assist young drivers with support, which will allow them to make deals with various race teams in either IndyCar or stock car racing.
PRI: Isn’t this “ride buying?”
Agajanian: That’s what it’s called. It was a concern in 1989 and is a bigger concern now.
PRI: OK, so how do you and Mike Curb specifically address this?
Agajanian: I believe talent should always win out, but so many talented kids now can’t find their way up through the short tracks to the higher levels because of the driver with a pocket full of money or a sponsor to bring along. That’s a way of life. Mike and I sat down, and decided to do something to help the grassroots driver, like a Kevin Swindell, who won an ARCA race with us in the Venturini car.You’ll also see Chad Boat (Billy Boat’s son) and five or six other kids in 2013 that Mike and I will help and mentor. We’re changing our business model to include this new wave of young great drivers coming along like, and these drivers aren’t necessarily clients, Bryan Clauson, Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney, Michael Lewis,Chase Elliott and so on. The Stewarts, Johnsons and Gordons are not yet ready to retire, but their replacements are starting to show up to supplant them. We’re hoping to help them along...http://epub.performanceracing.com/display_article.php?id=1267169
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