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Car count is down for four reasons basically. 1. The slow recovery of the economy, after 8 years of economic ruin! It is going to take awhile to get it back up to where it use to be, if that is possible at all. 2. Mega teams, that own and/or control the majority of the cars in the series. The independent driver/owner is no more and the with today's prices few outside of them can afford to compete. Bill France was right, back in the 50s, when he banned multi-car teams, after the old Mercury Outboard team so thoroughly dominated for a season or two. The two car max per team, worked for years. Same old story though, "if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it"! It wasn't broke, but Hendricks, Roush and others slowly snuck more and more teams into ownership and the rules against it WERE NOT enforced! Now, it would be all but impossible to break up the big multi-car teams. 4. The charter system! That has effectively locked out new teams for coming into the series. Couple that with the driving away of the base, hardcore, long time, grass root fans, due to the IDIOTIC, lack of leadership of brian france and his desire to turn automobile racing into some kind of a rolling "stick and ball" sport, with play-offs, overtime, and other such non-racing NONSENSE and you can see why the sport is dying! NASCAR had the "Goose that laid the Golden Egg, but brian france KILLED it!
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