What do you think about the foreign car makes coming into NASCAR?
“I don’t know. I guess I grew up when it wasn’t even a consideration. We thought we’d never see a foreign car in our series. But, on the other side of that, the owners are very hungry for money. These cars eat large sums of money. I don’t know enough about what Toyota has done in truck racing, but I do know that the bar will be raised. A certain amount of teams will be funded much more heavily than they are now, and it will put pressure on General Motors, Dodge and Ford to step up to the plate. If not, I see them losing good teams. I think eventually it will bring money into the sport. It could turn things upside down. There is one thing about this sport that you don’t see in others. There is a very strong sanctioning body. If you look at what has happened in other series, and I don’t know if there is a direct relationship to the manufacturers, but all of those other series are in trouble to a certain extent. I think NASCAR learned a big lesson years ago, long before I came along, when
