Tuesday, June 06, 2006

NASCAR's Multicar Limits To Get Serious?

NASCAR may get serious about limiting the size and scope of multicar teams, based on some little-noticed language in NASCAR's rulebook, although some team owners aren't sure NASCAR would have a legal leg to stand on.

They might here, though. Few remember that NASCAR has reserved the right for itself to seize racecars and not give them back, so putting language into the entry blank requiring entries to in effect open their books for NASCAR to see may not be so outrageous.

If anything, it's overdue, because the sport should never have allowed a handful of team owners to effectively buy out the starting field. The day that 25 or more individual raceteams are fielded each week, with each team building its own cars and its own engines, is a day the sport needs to reach.

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