You know the IMCA divisions of sprint,midget,late model race cars were extremely competitive and exciting to watch because they had a claimer on the engine now they only do that in thier Modified series. Any car that has a claimer on the engine will reduce cost, shocks are another thing $1000 each the damn things should put themselves on and make coffee, and tires, yes they stamp qualifier tires and teams run different ones in the heat to avoid another heat cycle but why not make them run the stamped tire all night, there is nother cost cut, but really all of this is a mute point if the promoters don't start promoting and just living on gate money, we were racing at the Speeddrome for years and then when the crowd was less that a 100 every week USAC got booted out, Mt.Lawn the same way we race there for less fans than crew guys. All I know is I'd rather race my VW against the millionaires than set home and sulk because I race for one reason only..I LOVE IT!