CUP: BAM Out Indefinitely

This is how NA$CAR wants it - RCR, Hendrick, RFR, JGR and maybe let MWR stay on for the rest of the series, so much for the small teams.  How soon before the Wood Brothers, Petty, and the rest of the “small” teams are forced out?

I don’t think NASCAR cares one way or the other about what teams run the series.  If anything they have evened out the playing field with the design of the cot and the strict rules that don’t allow teams to “tweak” the body on those cars for aerodynamic advantage.  With that being said, it still costs a lot of money to get a car competitive in NASCAR, so the smaller teams with less financial resources are at a disadvantage.  The limits on testing also limit owners with 1 or 2 cars as opposed to owners of 3, 4, & 5 teams.  Of course the testing limits only apply to tracks that NASCAR run on so there are no limits to testing at non Sprint Cup tracks.  It is called “free enterprise;” here are the rules, if you can’t afford to play, go home.

Russ Bellinis - 19 April 2008 10:25 AM

I don’t think NASCAR cares one way or the other about what teams run the series.  If anything they have evened out the playing field with the design of the cot and the strict rules that don’t allow teams to “tweak” the body on those cars for aerodynamic advantage.  With that being said, it still costs a lot of money to get a car competitive in NASCAR, so the smaller teams with less financial resources are at a disadvantage.  The limits on testing also limit owners with 1 or 2 cars as opposed to owners of 3, 4, & 5 teams.  Of course the testing limits only apply to tracks that NASCAR run on so there are no limits to testing at non Sprint Cup tracks.  It is called “free enterprise;” here are the rules, if you can’t afford to play, go home.

Ok. No complaining when Toyota kills everyone next year, deal?

:D

StateBoiler - 19 April 2008 11:15 AM

Russ Bellinis - 19 April 2008 10:25 AM

I don’t think NASCAR cares one way or the other about what teams run the series.  If anything they have evened out the playing field with the design of the cot and the strict rules that don’t allow teams to “tweak” the body on those cars for aerodynamic advantage.  With that being said, it still costs a lot of money to get a car competitive in NASCAR, so the smaller teams with less financial resources are at a disadvantage.  The limits on testing also limit owners with 1 or 2 cars as opposed to owners of 3, 4, & 5 teams.  Of course the testing limits only apply to tracks that NASCAR run on so there are no limits to testing at non Sprint Cup tracks.  It is called “free enterprise;” here are the rules, if you can’t afford to play, go home.

Ok. No complaining when Toyota kills everyone next year, deal?

:D

I don’t care if the racing is good.  What makes you think Toyota won’t kill everyone this year?  I wouldn’t want to bet against any of the Gibbs cars.  If Toyota starts running away from everybody else, or Ford or Chevy for that matter, expect NASCAR to make them go redesign their cylinder heads or whatever it takes to even out the competition.