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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye

The 2008 NASCAR season is abrasion to a close as Jimmie Lexicographer and Carl Edwards endeavor through the last few races. The enquiry many have in thought is how differing NASCAR could look in 2009 and beyond.

The time between seasons forever brings change. From drivers moving to new teams to Toyota entering the wear, the offseason is a time for ending stories and beginning new ones. 2009, still, holds out the beingness of being a real different twelvemonths indeed.

Simply put, NASCAR is confronting a harsh economic condition. While attendance at much races is down, the more quick problem has to do with the viability of the manufacturers. The basic question is which manufacturers will still be viable and bearing teams?

Make no error, the manufacturers are in serious trouble. The sales figures for everyone from Ford to Toyota are unnatural. Drops of 30 percent or more are now standard. It is estimated that as numerous as 40 percent of all automatic dealerships in the United States may fail. Generalised Motors and Chrysler have discussed convergence, but they are in such bad form that they have asked the governing for a ten billion bill word to make it befall.

Generic Motors is a organisation that is having particular bother. For the last two years, it has staggered along the fine line of needing to file bankruptcy. Ten years ago, the idea of GM going broke would have been laughable, but things have varied drastically. GM has reacted by closing down factories and selling off assets as fast as it could. Still, the future is very sketch to say the littlest.

Ford is not in much better form. It stock recently bottomed out at an unheard of $2 a share. The income figures for the organization are so bad, they are simply tough to contract. Still, Ford is in better form than GM to the extent the organization has built up up a lot of cash reserves. That cash will only last so long, nevertheless, and Ford appears to be hoarding its money in the prospect of things being bad of years to come.

The body of Toyota into NASCAR was a arguable selection. The revere of many was Toyota would thrust so much money around it would simply master the races. Well, Toyota is misery just as much as Ford and GM when it comes to car sales. Thrust in the fact the organization spends $400 million dollars a year in Pattern One and it is not hard to see how the powers that be at Toyota must be reconsidering there confinement to racing. Will the company leave NASCAR? No, it is more believably that the organization will depart Process One. That being said, Toyota is hardly going to be throwing a lot of money at its teams when vehicle income are in the vessel.

So, what does this all mean for NASCAR in 2009? Well, things are going fast in the system. If any of the manufacturers, particularly GM, are forced into insolvency, the teams employing those cars will be in big bother. Even without the threat of insolvency, sealed manufacturers sure are going to look intimately at how much they spend on NASCAR and whether they could proceed to spend the money. If not, we could see the disappearance of some iconic brands from NASCAR and a shuffle of the teams in generalised.