Toyota appears ready to withdraw its financial support of NASCAR Truck and Nationwide teams, though continuing engineering support, in the wake of General Motors’ decision to join Ford and Chrysler in withdrawing all but engineering support for those two NASCAR tours. There has been no specific comment on that yet from Toyota executives.
http://autoracingsport.com/nascar/report-toyota-to-withdraw-nationwide-and-truck-support/
If these car manufacturers can coordinate their NASCAR interests (without violating NASCAR rules or anti-trust provisions) it would seem to be in their best interest to present a common front to the challenges before them. Maybe the Obama administration is giving too much “advice” but, to state the obvious, this sport could be in very real jeopardy.