Are rumors just rumors or is Dale Jr a big fat liar

Earlier this season when Nascar announced that they were going to launch a Car Of Tomorrow (COT) for the Nationwide Series, starting for four races next year and running full time in 2011, Dale Earnhardt Jr owner of JR Motorsports said that the team didn't have enough money to make the switch from old to new.

Well if that is so, then why is ESPN.com reporting that JR Motorsports is close to signing Danica Patrick to drive in the Nascar Nationwide Series for two years?

Now if the rumor is true, then it would make Dale Jr a liar because, Danica Patrick is looking for a 300,000 a race. And If it cost near a million dollars to switch from the Nationwide Car of now to the Nationwide Car Of Tomorrow, then How can he do it. (that is a rough estimate of the cost, that was mentioned by either Earnhardt or another owner)

Now i know most will say, well Junior's Cup owner Rick Hendrick will help with the cost, but if that was the case then why didn't help Junior keep the number five Nationwide team running the whole season, since Hendrick has shown that he has the money. The reason is because there was no sponsorship to run the five the whole Nationwide season.

The only sponsor that has been mentioned is GoDaddy.com, who sponsors Danica in the IRL, where she has just signed a Three year deal with Andretti Green Racing. And I Doubt That they can sponsor her 12 Nationwide races and her IRL team, i mean the most races i've ever seen GoDaddy.com on a JR Motorsports Chevy where about four.

And it also presents a problem with the GoDaddy.com Commercials because Nascar has a policy that censors sexually suggestive ads on cars and television broadcasts, and Godaddy.com's advertising is typically contains sexually suggestive material. And i doubt Godaddy.com would want to lose their Danica Patrick sexually suggestive advertising.

Racing in both Nascar Nationwide and the IRL would also would hurt her modeling career, since i doubt she would have that much free time.

Sprint Cup Driver and former IRL driver Juan Pablo Montoya said this past weekend that Danica shouldn't jump back and forth between the two different racing series and only concentrate on one series.

It was also stated that she would make either $50,000 and $100,000 a race, which other Nationwide Series driver make, instead of the 300,00 or 1,000,000 a race she was reported to have wanted. It was also stated that she isn't in it for the money, she was in it for the experience.

Well, i fine that hard to believe since in the same article it was reported that people have admitted that the potential financial windfall might be worth the grind of logistics and the learning curve of stock car racing. Now i don't know about everyone else but that sounds like she's being told to do it for the money instead of for experience.

I know of a few ways that Danica could get experience in a stock car that doesn't involve milking cash strapped owners.

I wonder how long Danica Watch, will take to turn into Danica Gate.