Lou Patane of Chrysler is interviewed, and says they will not be competing in Winston Cup. Here’s the question from Circle Track’s Will Handzel and Lou’s answer. WH: Now that the four-door Ford Taurus has been accepted in Winston Cup, is a Chrysler Winston Cup car in the future?
LP: The Chrysler philosophy is to race what we sell. Except for a few situations in drag racing where we are promoting our Mopar Performance Parts, this is true. Ford decided to go Winston Cup racing with the front-drive Taurus for their own reasons, but we have a lot on our plate today and we don’t feel that taking on an all-new development program to get and remain competitive in Winston Cup would create the return on investment for the assets we want to put in motorsports right now. Right now this is not in our plans.(Circle Track from a reader)(12-3-97)
