Low car counts...could this be a solution?

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If the car counts showing up for races continue to dwindle do you think NASCAR may merge the Cup and Busch series or even the Trucks or ARCA series to ensure enough drivers for each week? They might get rid of something less popular to bring in more drivers to the Cup series.

What does everyone else think?

This was just an idea I've thought about and nothing has officially been published about it.
 
Busch and Truck teams are having a hard time finding the money to run those series.
Where would you suggest those teams find the necessary funding to step up into the top tier of NASCAR?
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this.

By the way, ARCA is in no way associated with NASCAR; two different sanctioning bodies entirely.
 
Well, with NASCAR supporting a few drivers from Arca and trying to help them get ino this weekends race I wouldnt doubt that if a merge did occur that NASCAR might help out some teams if they decided to combine their resources with other teams and field Cup cars. It would really leave out a lot of drivers and something this drastic is probably a long shot but if Nextel wants full 43 car fields dont you think that NASCAR would be wlling to do something like this, I mean who is pouring more money into the sport right now...Nextel Communications or Busch Beer or even Craftsman tools?

If it came down to losing Nextel or Busch as a series sponsor...who would they choose?
 
Where in the world do you get the idea that NASCAR pays teams to show up at the race track?
My friend, it works the other way around; the teams pay a pretty healthy entry fee, which must be received well in advance of the date of that particular event or the fee increases and no points are awarded; and then there is an inspection fee that must be paid for each car and each time the car has to be inspected if it fails the first time.

The series sponsors pay into the seasons point fund, market promotions of the series throughout the year, and contingency awards at events and other things of that nature.

Neither NASCAR or the series sponsors have anything to do with the funding of the individual teams, although NASCAR and the series sponsor will assist teams in their search for additional sponsorship moneys.

Hope this helps clear up your misunderstanding a bit?
 
Well, I heard that on SPEED this weekend during practice that NASCAR was going to help a couple of teams that raced in the ARCA race get setup to qualify for the Daytona 500 to ensure a full field. Cant say if that was the truth or not but it's just what I heard.
 
Getting cars to race has been a problem for a few years now. Pretty expensive sport to say the least. I can see where NASCAR might help out a little......as they should. But overall they just sanction the races and do the promotional stuff that a sanctioning body needs to do. It won't be the end of the world if the starting field is a few cars fewer than the 43 we are accustomed to. If my memory serves me correctly the magic number of 43 is something NBC/TNT and FOX/FX dreamed up anyway.
 
I'd have to look up the details, but if memory serves me the 43 starting positions had something to do with the use of provisionals and as an after thought the 43rd spot was added as the past champion's.

I've heard lots of talk about the TV deal and a guarenteed number of starters on the message boards, but not much about it in the media center or garage area and honestly haven't thought ask.

I would think that NASCAR might agree to starting a "full field" of cars each race, but I would also think that NASCAR would reserve the right to decide what constitutes a "full field".

Despite what so many fans seem to think, there are no fools or dummys in the headquarters at Daytona.
If anyone truly believes otherwise, I would have to ask them some questions as to the extent of their education, the size of their bank accounts as well as their stock, bonds and other corportate holdings.
 
Wasn't it at Pocano last year, NASCAR or someone struggled to get 43 cars in the field? Seems like small teams, maybe Carl Long was one, took the last three or four spots. They ran about three laps and parked their cars.

I want to say whoever broadcasted the race, either NBC or Fox, said something to the effect that if there wasn't 43 cars, they weren't showing the race.....
 
I think they had to scurry about a bit at Atlanta too.
 
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