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Spending's never been so costly

By Jerry Bonkowski
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, April 22, 2004

Competing at the highest level of NASCAR racing can be compared to filling up your car's gas tank these days: the costs keep getting higher, but you begrudgingly have to pay more if you want to keep rolling. And for roughly 40-plus full-time NASCAR teams, higher costs are the price of doing business if they want to keep rolling toward the Nextel Cup championship. Costs across the board have risen -- sometimes in spectacular fashion -- in almost all areas of Nextel Cup competition in the last f ...

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