Found November 15, 2011 on Rant Sports: Yardbarker Blogger Network
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Brian Vickers the driver of the #83 Red Bull Toyota will be out of a job when the season is over, next Monday to be exact.  Red Bull Racing is shutting down and selling either the Team or the equipment.  At this point in the season they will probably be lucky to sell the equipment.  One would think that in light of this fact, he and his team would have stepped it up a notch in order to audition for new jobs.  Instead they are 25th in points and having the worst season yet, not counting last season when Brian was out most of the year for health problems. Go back a couple of weeks to the race at the Martinsville Speedway.  Throughout that race Brian raced every car really hard, sometimes bouncing off of them like pin balls.  Yes, many times it was hard to tell if it was really Brian’s doing or the other drivers.  The only apparent constant was it was the #83 car involved.  At some point in the race Matt Kenseth was faster and was racing Brian on the outside to get the position. ...
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