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CUP: Another Season Of Struggle For EGR | Reduction

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CUP: Another Season Of Struggle For EGR

2011 Daytona 500 Winning Car
2011 Daytona 500 Winning Car by Scott_Calleja
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When your highlight moment of an entire 36-race NASCAR Sprint Cup season is running into a jet dryer and causing a massive explosion in the opening event of the year, chances are your season wasn’t very good. And that, in a nutshell, pretty much sums up the 2012 campaign for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. EGR drivers Jamie McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya finished 21st and 22nd, respectively, in the final Sprint Cup points this year. While that’s a very minor improvement over 2011, when McMurray was 27th and Montoya 21st, it was hardly the quantum leap forward the team was hoping for. Between them, McMurray and Montoya failed to win a race or post a single top-five finish. McMurray earned three top 10s with a best of seventh, while Montoya came home in the top 10 just twice.

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Montoya

Overall Sentiment: -0.0543942

Relevance: 0.942383

SentimentQuote
-0.0220607“Every time I got on the gas it vibrated,” Montoya said. ...
0.17892“Every time I got on the gas it vibrated,” Montoya said. “The car turned right while I was asking the spotter to check out the rear end.”
-0.201676“What a tough year for the Target team,” lamented Montoya ...
0“What a tough year for the Target team,” lamented Montoya after the final race of the year at Homestead-Miami Speedway. “We still have a lot of testing coming up and with the new car and new motors next year I’m looking forward to a fresh start. I’d like to thank Target and all the partners for their support this year and we’ll go chase that championship next year.”
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0448167
  • Mean: -0.011204175
  • Standard Deviation: 0
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Jamie McMurray

Overall Sentiment: 0.0854296

Relevance: 0.357858

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Juan Pablo Montoya

Overall Sentiment: 0.0151748

Relevance: 0.349203

Earnhardt Ganassi

Overall Sentiment: 0.330822

Relevance: 0.214479

Chip Ganassi

Overall Sentiment: 0.398077

Relevance: 0.202431

SentimentQuote
0.250924“It’s just a matter of putting the right people in place and letting them do their job,” team co-owner Chip Ganassi told ...
0.0340639“It’s just a matter of putting the right people in place and letting them do their job,” team co-owner Chip Ganassi told reporters before the season began. “It was obviously time to make a change. We took a big swipe at it. I’m certainly happy with the people we have. If more changes need to be done, we’ll do that, in fact, as well.”
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.2849879
  • Mean: 0.14249395
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Felix Sabates

Overall Sentiment: 0.146462

Relevance: 0.1703

Richard Childress

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.153077

Tom Jensen

Overall Sentiment: 0.0250552

Relevance: 0.143636

Chris Heroy

Overall Sentiment: 0.19828

Relevance: 0.124784

Max Jones

Overall Sentiment: 0.163405

Relevance: 0.123183

John Probst

Overall Sentiment: 0.100756

Relevance: 0.12024

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  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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