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Kevin LePage and Mac Hill Motorsports will be leading the charge of Nationwide teams Monday closing their doors. LePage, who start-and-parked in all but one race this season, confirmed the move while lamenting the possibility of short fields in the sport’s second-tier division in 2011.

“NASCAR seems to think there’s going to be 45 cars at every race,” he said. “But I don’t see how that’s possible…with the purse cuts and the [additional expenses of] the CoT.”

The Vermont native, a former driver on the Cup side for such powerhouses as Roush Racing, feels strongly that smaller teams like Mac Hill are getting squeezed out by the sport’s recent changes. Claiming there’s only a handful of companies to go around, the down economy combined with declining attendance has taken a toll on teams now unable to survive the fight with other top-tier Truck, Nationwide, and even Cup operations for the smaller, $2-$3 million-a-year sponsors.

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Brian Keselowski is also among those car owners in flux, although he’s highly optimistic the K-Automotive team will be back in some shape or form in 2011. “I don’t know what I’m going to do,” he joked. “But it’ll be something!” The team is working on acquiring a Nationwide CoT for next season, but hasn’t yet decided whether they’ll try more Cup races after making a handful of attempts this Fall. As with most teams this time of year, sponsorship is needed to ensure their short-term stability in the sport.

- Frontstretch.com