You did not spend too much in travel. The teams will not go to South Boston and Myrtle Beach this year, but will make new journeys to Chicago and Kansas. You certainly can t drive to those, so now you are buying 10-15 plane tickets for the crew for two more races for around 300 dollars a piece. I wish I knew a happy ending to this story, but for now there is no end in sight. Sponsors continue to leave as television coverage of the Busch Series reaches half as many people as last year.
Costs continue to rise in the team shops and the travel department.
Teams decide to close their doors because it just does not make sense to spend millions of dollars to get thousands of dollars back in prize money. Until the cost issues and sponsor issues are resolved, the Busch Series will see things get worse before they get better. Teams will close and people will be out of jobs. For these people, growing pains could not get much worse.