GM Head Steps Down, could it affect NASCAR?George Richard “Rick” Wagoner Jr. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors resigned as Chairman and CEO at General Motors on March 29, 2009, at the request of the White House.The value of GM has gone down by more than 90%, while he was in charge or about 72 Billion dollars. There stock dropped from $60 a share to a little over a dollar.The White House said they had no desire to run GM and the “B”word bankruptcy was mentioned. They do have a plan to save GM & Chrysler; Ford is not in the spotlight yet as they are not declining as rapidly. Cleaner cars are a major part of their plan, and NASCAR definitely does not fit.5-6 MPG and over 300 horse powered cars in an organization that took 25 plus years to switch to unleaded fuels, cannot be called a green company. The leader of NASCAR are putting up a good front, as they have to with sponsor money on a rapid decline, but what would the loss of manufacture dollars do to the sport. I don’t think it would kill the sport but it definitely would be on life support. As many of the teams already are having money IE sponsorship problems.I say put Jimmy Spencer in a old clunker car let him take out as many as he can and then let the rest run the race, a demo derby start. A stupid idea I know but not any more of a clunker than backing around the track or the new 2 race rule for Nationwide that prohibits any burnouts for the winner when the engine is on the first race.NASCAR quit shooting yourself in the foot and let them race continue to try to limit the amount of money it takes to run a race so the smaller and lesser financed teams stand a chance. I have not had a favorite driver since Dale Sr but I would love to see a Dave Blaney, Marcos Ambrose, Tony Raines among others win a race.I am positive the good old boys that run on the sand at Daytona would take you all out behind the garage and give you a whooping if they knew what you have done to their racing. They didn’t call it entertainment or a sport it was racing. Remember your big start came when at the end of the race one driver took to beating on another driver head with his helmet on TV. They also called this racing.