While we're at it, I heard (on good authority) that Tom Walters is going to join the series next year with Pepsi backing!

No, that can't possibly be. I heard on very good authority that he has been accepted in Nasa's space program to be the first man on Mars, and he accepted, on the condition that they put an orange 47 on the spaceship.

Man, if i had a nickle for every time this rumour about walters was posted here, i could afford to go racing! lol

lol Silverstone  😀

Crappied Tire is going to be more worried about bailing their sagging sales, that trying to help race teams. When you don't have customers because no one has money, you don't care about advertising. Want to bet that Canadian Tire pulled or drastically reduced Gibbon's sponsorship? The purses have never been big, the only reason a team like that existed was due to sponsorship. Never was the purse, never will be the purse, makes no business sence. So now to get this right, you expect the company, that most likely cut him to reduced their expenses, to suddenly turn around and "sponsor" all teams with a bigger purse?

NASCAR is about making money. They make their money selling advertising from sponsors. If the series is not attracting sponsors which its not, why would they invest more money in it? Not going to happen. You don't make it in business being a nice guy.

quite right but you also dont make it in business if you do not have a decent product and if half of what BAR says is true the series is in trouble.