NASCAR- TIK TOK TIK TOK

Guest · 2008-11-14T18:07:54Z

Whats news in Nascar Land, is slowly making its way North.First off- Petty Enterprizes will close its operations unless they can be joined with another Team due to the Dodge fall out. Petty's Representatives said that unless a proper joint venture can be formed, they will no longer contend as a Nascar Operation in any capacity what so ever.Evernham has signed with Toyota, but only as a paying Team and will receive no development help what so ever over and beyond what other Toyota 'paying' teams receive.Ford has announced it is looking to drop 40% of their interest, both Capital and R&D with its Nascar Teams. At the same time they have also said they are increasing their involvement with the Sports Car scene and Open Wheel Racing series.At what level- no one knows at this point.NASCAR Canadian Tire Series News- Richard Couglin is no longer affiliated with the NCTS as his position has been terminated. Couglin will now take a job with Nascar Canada which is totally separate from the actual Racing Series.Other news in the series is the announcement of the NASCAR Crate motor which was tested last weekend by Kerry Micks and proved to be successful. The new engine supplied by NASCAR will cost around $28,000.00 and must be equipped with a NASCAR Spec. Carb for an additional $1600.00. In short the new engine program for the Canadian Tire Series will run the racers around $30,000.00. The biggest problem is this engine will be allowed with a weight advantage making it more dominate. Why is that a problem??Who is going to buy the engines that are currently owned by these teams ??Expectations of loosing more teams is inevitable as this series is already struggling with poor car counts and terrible payouts.What Nascar needs is someone else besides Canadian Tire to step up to increase the purses as it is obvious that Nascar cannot run the series on the Million Dollars a year it is getting now from Canadian Tire. It's either do that or stop stealing so much money !! The long awaited C.O.T. car for the Nationwide Series is on full speed ahead as Nascar feels the need to replace the current car is a must, more-so when manufactures like Dodge are jumping ship it becomes a sign of the times. Nascar feels the C.O.T.Nationwide car will help out any new teams looking to come into the series due to the fact that they only need to purchase one car.The problem with that theory is it is a flat out lie.... This is the same thing they told the Cup Teams when they announced the C.O.T. car for Cup, but it is obvious that each shop in Charlotte houses at least 6 cars per Driver.The biggest problem with the C.O.T. Nationwide car is obvious.By the time the current Teams restock their shops with new C.O.T. cars, they will all be broke. Again, A Nationwide Car that is worth $65,000.00 today will fall under the same deal as the Cup Cars did when the mandated C.O.T. car was brought in. The Nationwide cars will be worth nothing and more Teams will go bankrupt just by the announcement.Here we go again.....Hey Nascar- Take all the money you want..but leave the cars alone...you idiots !!!!You can say you heard it first here on CRO......

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DWfan4ever

Nov 17, 2008 12:27 am

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The point i was trying to make when I mentioned the OSS was that there have been numerous series "supposed" to start up and dominate the Canadian racing scene. ISA, and most recently the OSS. The OSS did see an increase in the number of cars for its events and the schedule did increase, however after watching both them and the NASCAR series I definitely would rather watch an NCATS race over the OSS. And as pointed out by southernsponsor, the current shape of the world economy is no where near in good enough shape to try and start a series from scratch and take on something that has been around for some time.

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