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More NASCAR layoffs?

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09:51 AM ET 11.04 | Teams have predicted that the unemployment lines following the season finale at Homestead will exceed the numbers we witnessed following 2008. Under NASCAR's four-car rule, Roush Fenway Racing loses one team under its roof and another across the street at Yates Racing. While employees have been told there will be movement in the ranks with the potential of a Richard Petty Motorsports/Yates merger, in either case a minimum of two teams will dissolve -- the No. 26 and the No. 44. The No. 96 Hall of Fame Racing team will no longer use the services of Yates Racing in 2010. However, the No. 98 team could remain under the Yates banner -- and not RPM -- in order to keep Paul Menard in the fold. Regardless, the four teams (98, 9, 19 and 43) are expected to operate under one roof.

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November 4, 2009  10:07 AM ET

Might as well put them all under one roof, I can't tell them apart.

November 4, 2009  10:08 AM ET

Maybe Jr. will take an early retirement.

November 4, 2009  10:21 AM ET

Maybe Kyle Busch will have a sex change!

November 4, 2009  10:22 AM ET

98 will team up with Robby Gordon

yet another fine article

November 4, 2009  10:22 AM ET

JK you are at it the first thing this morning..LOL Jr. CAN afford to retire...
Youi know why should NASCAR be any different then any other job..I haven't been working for over a year.. I feel bad for people but I feel bad for me too!!

November 4, 2009  10:26 AM ET
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Maybe Kyle Busch will have a sex change!

OK, nothing to do with layoffs, but Funny!

November 4, 2009  10:27 AM ET

For whom the bell tolls....

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November 4, 2009  10:42 AM ET

So people will be getting layed off and teams will be shuffled around... and this is different from every other year?

November 4, 2009  10:45 AM ET

"Toyota is pulling out of Formula One racing."
"Fellow Japanese automakers Subaru and Suzuki pulled out of the World Rally Championship ahead of this season."

These guys should form a Nascar team and bring some Drifting Techniques into the racing mix.

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November 4, 2009  11:46 AM ET

drifting that much different than dirt tracking?

November 4, 2009  12:19 PM ET

Next year, only Jimmie Johnson will race. Why should anyone else bother to waste the time or money?

November 4, 2009  01:02 PM ET
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Next year, only Jimmie Johnson will race. Why should anyone else bother to waste the time or money?

Maybe he can drive the pace-car, the ambulance, and the clean up trucks so that no one else can get on the track to ruin his stellar show...

Let's rename it to JOHNSON-CAR

November 4, 2009  01:10 PM ET

not enough fans attending ??....................economy sucks !

November 4, 2009  01:19 PM ET
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long and drawn-out...but worth a read.

Seth - thanks,darn good info you passed along,IT WAS worth a read.

November 4, 2009  01:46 PM ET

F1 race at Abi Dhabi was interesting, 23 turns a lap and you must be in the correct gear when hitting your marks in every turn.
It did not make a fun race to watch, but you do have to give the drivers credit, for a race to be that technical and make it as boring to watch as it was is no easy accomplishment.

And we did get to see where all our (United States of America's) money goes after we fill up our gas tanks.

November 4, 2009  01:56 PM ET

Fannation is reducing - one article (again) not related to the chase

 
November 4, 2009  02:03 PM ET

In more important news....Danica Patrick is THIS close to signing a two-year contract with JR Motorsports to run in the Nationwide series!! Yeeeeehaaaaa

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