More bad news as NASCAR empire begins to crumble

Jayski reports hearing that PPI Motorsports will close up shop after the 2006 season, that the pit crew has been hired by Michael Waltrip Racing and most of the team/crew at the shop has been laid off. Driver Travis Kvapil, as announced, will drive a Roush Racing Truck in 2007. Sponsor Tide is leaving after this season and word is that they will not be back in NASCAR as a sponsor. Related Article

[Editor's Note: We find it rather amusing that the NASCAR apologists can't see the forest through the trees. NASCAR has peaked and the younger generation has zero interest in watching four hour races of spec cars with headlight and grille decals to fool you into thinking it is a Ford, Chevy or Dodge. Then they race with 1950's technology of pushrod engines with carburetors, and some of the drivers have such a southern twang they sound like gomers – again zero interest for the younger generation. As NASCAR's fan base ages and dies off it will continue to lose followers. To make matters worse, with Toyota coming in to annihilate the American car companies, the rednecks, i.e. NASCAR's biggest fan base, will head elsewhere. What American race series was left thriving after Toyota got done with it? IMSA, CART, IRL…..The result was the same.]