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"I need to reinvent what we used to do, which is to sell ourselves.

NASCAR doesn't really market short-track racing.

The tracks have to market themselves." Venditti may be ahead of the curve on this one.

The April 2006 issue of Dick Berggren's Speedway Illustrated magazine contains a review of several elaborate short tracks built in the last six years at the height of interest in NASCAR.

Several were in remote locales, and two of them the only asphalt race tracks in regions devoted to dirt.

But one track was just outside Los Angeles and even it has its struggles.

The deeper message from those track owners, however, seemed to be that while NASCAR will sell you the right to use its name, you have to do something with it because NASCAR won't.

Further, NASCAR in the last two years has made it even harder on short-track promoters by moving some of its Nextel Cup races from the traditional Sunday afternoons to Friday and Saturday nights to satisty its TV partners.

The NASCAR banner made Seekonk drivers eligible to compete in the Dodge Weekly Racing Series points standings, in which a mathematical formula ranked a driver's success over the course of the season and ranked it against other drivers in similar ...

"I think in the long run, these are probably quite damaging decisions that have been made," Masson said.

"These are the sorts of problems that you do not want to face when running a lab." Griffin said NASA will continue to proceed on the programs it can.

"It is a difficult and delicate balancing act and it does create some broken china," Griffin said.

Simon Ostrach, a retired director of the National Center for Space Exploration Research, said he and others are "up in arms." New scientists cannot be trained if their mentors have no funding, he and others say.

"If he (Griffin) thinks 15 years from now he is going to turn the spigot on again, he's crazy," said Ostrach, whose former center has to shut its doors and will release about 40 workers by September because of the NASA cuts.

Griffin said he knows there will be scientific challenges ahead but also recognizes competitors are ready.

"The U.S.

risks both a real and perceived loss of leadership on the world stage if we are unable to launch our own astronauts into space for an extended period of time when other nations possess their own capab...