By restricting testing, how much can teams save?
Helton: We don’t know what the number is per team. We don’t know what the collective number is for the industry. We do know or have a pretty good feel through the due diligence that we’ve done that this is in the range of tens of millions to the industry. When I say the industry, I’m talking about the garage areas all combined. Question: Did the bad economy force the decision to stop testing? Helton: It came along collectively between the conversations that we began having with teams back at the end of June about how to go into testing in ’09. And there were a lot of conversations that were being held about a lot of different options as that dialogue unfolded. Along the way, with the economic conditions turning the way they have turned recently, not just in our industry but worldwide, we began to think a month or so ago differently about testing as we were considering different options and different topics that we could look at in an effort to help the economic part of the sport collec
