Don,
Just read this on the NASCAR site. I know that last season Richard Petty was talking about the fact that Petty Enterprises couldn't afford to go it alone any more. Also France has written to congress urging them to bailout the Auto Industry. Kind of a back step from his statement of sometime ago that NASCAR could do quite well without Ford, GM, and the others.
http://www.nascar.com/2008/news/head...tty/index.html
Ron