Its a bit overwhelming here in the midst this crunch. Dealing with the turmoil, speculations, and the pain of those affected by it causes much concern. But the sport of NASCAR racing will probably be better when it all shakes out. If everyone works harder, smarter, and more economically to get what they need or want, the results should be positive.When times are good its easy to live beyond the means and over-indulge in benefits of prosperity. Benefits like: extra personnela specialist for this and another for that; an extra one of theseand another one of those whether its a test session or a motor home. How many people, parts, cars and trucks does it actually take to run a race team. Were going to find out.The same holds true for NASCAR. The race schedules, their lengths, and consequently the demands on teams and sponsors may have just reached a peak in this cycle of racing evolution. Regardless of how one feels about NASCARs constant tweaking of the cars, the format and the seemingly managed results, the competition appears better than ever. They (NASCAR) have achieved their goal of providing close and exciting racing for the fans and have over-indulged in the process.The effect this economic crunch has had on sponsors and race teams puts pressure on NASCAR to do some more tweaking to do their part to get the costs of running a race team under control. The ban on testing is evidence that is their intentbut falls short of the mark. Have they really banned testing? Not really. NASCAR doesnt have that kind of control over the teams. They can only stop them from testing on tracks they (NASCAR) control. So the teams with the financial ability will be doing plenty of testing on non-NASCAR tracks. Racers will always spend everything they have and sometimes more to gain an edge, going to the limit of the rulesinto the grey areaand sometime beyond. This has always been true and will most likely never change. NASCAR has to find ways to cut costs in areas they can control.The old saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder. A slightly shorter season and some slightly shorter races just might make the racing slightly more exciting and save several million dollars in the process. Sure, there are too many contracts and commitments in place to make a sudden, drastic change, but now is the time to get a handle on the future of this sport.The economic crunch could serve as an opportunity to make the necessary changes to propel this sport to its highest level. Its getting out of hand when even rich people cant afford to participate. So, somebody needs to step up and take chargethey ran the poor people out of racing years agolet's not let the same thing happen to the rich ones.