How would you suggest controlling costs in NASCAR without affecting racing quality?
Recently, Kenny Wallace on NASCAR RaceDay built by The Home Depot and Mark Ashenfelter and Marty Smith on ESPN.com have talked about/written about how the cost of racing in NASCAR has become nearly untenable for some teams. How would you control the spiraling cost of being in NASCAR-at all 3 major levels-without diminishing racing quality? Please be as specific as possible.
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October 13th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
With gas prices like this its costing teams millions to drive all over the country back and forth like they too.
Group the tracks in regions. Make 2 trips to each region and then move on to the next region. They would still run all the same tracks so nobody loses a race. Start in the south run once at those tracks. Move out west run them once. Then up to the 2 midwest and east trips in the summer. Back to the south and west in the fall. This makes sure you have warm weather in the spring and fall and cooler weather in the summer.
West: Cali (2 races), Vegas (1 race), Phoenix (2 races), Texas (2 races), Infineon (1 race)
Midwest: Mich (2 races), Chicago (1 race), Kansas (1 race), Indy (1 race)
East: NH (2 races), Pocono (2 races), Dover (2 races), Watkins Glen (1 race)
South: Daytona (2 races), Talledaga (2 races), Bristol (2 races), Darlington (1 race), Richmond (2 races), Atlanta (2 races), Lowes (2 races), Homested (1 race)