Interesting piece in USAT on NASCAR's efforts to keep expensive technology out of the sport.

Next year officials could place limits on the types of gears teams can use in an attempt to limit engine revolutions per minute. This would prevent larger teams from spending money to develop higher-revving engines that produce more horsepower. It's more important to have competitive racing than faster racing.

Perhaps the most controversial idea NASCAR is considering: forcing teams to buy the center section of their chassis — the car's basic underbody frame — from an outside firm at a fixed price. Teams would build their own engines, suspension systems and body panels.

This is a problem for all motorsports. F1 has embraced technology fights, only to come to regret them and try to stuff the technological genie back in the bottle. NASCAR proceeds cautiously -- they are supposed to be "stock" cars, after all -- but faces some of the same problems of haves and have nots.