RCR's Childress Says Hicks A Potential NASCAR Investor

Hicks Expressing Interest In Becoming An Investor To A NASCAR Team

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING? Childress "isn't sure whether this current crop of new investors is a good thing for NASCAR." Childress added, "I can see if the sport and the trend goes like I see it going, it may be five years, it may be 10 years, but you're going to have 10, 12, 14 car owners. And if you've got 11 of them, you've got 44 cars in the field." More Childress: "So then, those 11 guys can sit right in this room right here and say, 'You know, that damn purse really ain't being divided right. Or the TV money. Or we don't like this.' If you've got 40 car owners, it's a whole lot harder to get them to go in one direction. When you get it down to 11, say a 44-car field, it makes a huge difference." Childress, who will add a fourth car to RCR in '09, "sees the demise of the single-car team owner, primarily due to the increased operating costs that otherwise can be spread out amongst four teams." Childress: "We don't want our company sitting back here three years from now saying, 'Damn, we should have done four teams. Now you can't get this, you can't get that. All this stuff is gone." Margolis notes there is "one thing that takes some of the enjoyment out of the sport'' for Childress. Childress: "The politics is what will run me out of the sport. It's just (expletive)" (SPORTS.YAHOO.com, 4/10).

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