What is Nascar going to do without GM

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Ford and Chrysler?

[Seen the light]

1. Please welcome Dale Jr in the 88 car driving a Honda Civic! nt

[FarCenter]

2. That would be the Stella Artois (formerly Budweiser) team?

[JVS]

3. Didn't they already switch to some kind of Car of Tomorrow platform that is the same thing...

no mater whether made Ford, GM, Mopar, or Toyota?

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6. What would be the point if all the cars were Toyotas?

[Historic NY]

4. The problem is the sponsorships, no money no racing....

it take 10s of millions to keep a team on the track.

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7. And the f-----g Republicans from down south have

killed off the #1 sport in the South, brilliant aren't they?

[madrchsod]

8. watching fords and those rice burners.....

yup, ya got to hand it to them....

[Lugnut]

5. Ford re-upped with Roush Fenway in October.

I haven't heard any news about factory support for Dodge and GM teams so far. I imagine without a bailout something will have to give somewhere and it won't be good for NASCAR.

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. First Brian France, and now

this shit. Bill France is rolling over in is grave. Boring races, empty seats, poor TV ratings, and declining sponsorships from the corporate crowd. I'm a NASCAR fan, but they married the repukes, abandoned the middle class fans, and are now paying the price.

[jmowreader]

11. I think the tracks are one of the biggest problems

In the old days, every track was built different--look at tracks like Talladega, Bristol, Martinsville and Pocono. You could count on it being a different race every week.

Then Speedway Motorsports and International Speedway Corporation started building identical tracks all over the country. There's only so much you can do with a 1-1/2 mile dogleg oval--and, except for California Speedway, that's all they've built in the last fifteen years. (And California looks very much like Michigan!)

When the track's the same, the racin's the same, and people are getting bored with it.

[GrizzlyMan]

10. They're going to turn left!

Over and over again...only in a Toyota.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. First they came for their Winstons and nobody spoke up...

Then they came for the Chevy, the Dodge and the Ford.

It's the attack of the scabs!

NASCAR started to take the plunge the day # 3 crossed his last finish line.