I fully expect the economy to stiffle car counts. I spoke with a friend last Friday and he said his equipment is parked for the year unless the economy does a quick 180 and things improve drasticly and after the market shedding another 281 points today and the possiblity that the worlds larget company could go bankrupt and cease to exist as we know it just proves the point that the sconomy is far far worse than anyone really wants to admit to. People are losing their jobs, houses, and retirement savings. The last thing on their minds is racing or anything else for that matter. They are simply going to try and hold onto what they can and downsize everything in their lives.

The economy will not get better till atleast September at the earliest. By that time will we have racing as we know it now? Lets look at it this way. GM goes broke. What does that do to the racing landscape? I can't see any court allowing GM product lines to be in racing so all those programs are gone. There go all those jobs not to menion teams with engines that are more or less obsolete. Chrysler is in dire straights. All their racing programs are potentially gone (which is more a reality than most think) That's half the manufatures in NASCAR alone.

How will this economy not effect the car counts is more the question we should be asking.