NASCAR dropped all testing to reduce costs, but you can still go to (non-nascar tracks) Kentucky and test all you want. I'm sure the big money teams will have part-time garages there before long. I can see this getting worse maybe much worse before it gets better. During the CART Indycar years Tony George put a stop to the high cost starting the IRL and took all the heat. He may look like a smart man before this is over. I wonder how many midget & sprint teams will limit their races or just quit for awhile.

With sponsorships disappearing at the top it's going to happen at the bottom if one even has one to begin with. In the '77 recession era I remember some weeks at Haubstadt where they would only have 16-18 sprints. Hopefully this rough time will be over soon. What concerns me though is back in '77 people were laid off but had jobs to return to. Now those jobs have moved to Mexico and everywhere else.

Somehow sprints/midgets need to go back to cast-iron blocks and other measures. Cutting motor costs in half would help a lot of teams.