NASCAR won’t shorten race weekend

NASCAR president Mike Helton has the difficult job of trying to steer the sport through a troubling economy. Teams have laid off more than 700 employees, and other organizations have closed their doors. He also said NASCAR is looking at other ways to keep the sport solvent. Here are excerpts of that interview:

Will there be any consideration to shortening the racing weekend to save more money?

Helton: Not today. Except to tell you that starting next week, we, NASCAR have the opportunity to sit down and catch up on topics that will be timely for '09. And in reviewing that we will have things over the off season and maybe into January where we can come back and say these are things that we're doing in different series or all the series. Augusta Chronicle