"Listen, we're going broke," moans one racer. "This is like a crash on Wall Street. I'm just real thankful that nobody can get hurt too bad by jumping off a pit wall."
"Costs have skyrocketed in the past few years, and there seems to be no end in sight,"
"The racing body has been living on heroin injections for the past 10 years."
"This is an ideal opportunity to make careful cuts in the cost of racing that will place it, economically, on its own four wheels again. But they've got to move fast or we'll all be out of business."
Quotes from 2009? .... No, how about 1974... the good old days.
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