Sunday, September 07, 2008
Is Red Bull GM Jay Frye leaving to rejoin Rick Hendrick? The answer may be up to Dietrich Mateschitz
Jay Frye, general manager of Team Red Bull: will he stay with the teams he’s helped turnaround this season, or will he move on to Tony Stewart’s new Chevy team? (Photo by Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
RICHMOND, Va.
Jay Frye, whose work this season as general manager for Team Red Bull has helped spark a turnaround, is just back from a trip to Salzburg, Austria, the home of Red Bull.
And Frye says he laid out for owner Dietrich Mateschitz all the various team options for 2009 – including possible expansion to a three-car team, or what Frye called “a 2-1/2-car team,” with a new Scott Speed team running a partial Cup schedule as teammate with Brian Vickers and AJ Allmendinger.
But Frye also pointed out that Allmendinger’s contract is up at the end of this year, and Frye said the owner has not been particularly enthusiastic about funding a full three-car operation.
“We should know more in the next week,” Frye says.
Frye was noncommittal about reports that he could well move from the Toyota operation to Rick Hendrick’s Chevrolet family to work with the new Tony Stewart-Ryan Newman team. While some here insist a Frye-to-Hendrick move is a “done deal,” others close to Frye insist the veteran manager is leaning toward staying with Red Bull.
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