Money just shows up at the door
We hear that some Grand-Am team owners have never met anyone from their sponsor…..the check just shows up in the mailbox every month. While everyone involved is pretty hush-hush about it, it seems the powerful France family may be leveraging their influence with many of its NASCAR sponsors to throw a bone the way of various Grand-Am teams. If true, it explains why new Grand-Am teams pop up out of nowhere all the time. "There're a dime a dozen" quipped one source.