a few highlights and a link to the entire tramscript:
MIKE HELTON: What is first certain, what we announced is that beginning in ’06, there’s a cap, understanding that that cap, if we institute it cleanly in ’06, would put a couple of teams in a bad position, and we don’t want to do that. So we’re going to grandfather Roush in, and then Hendricks. For example, he had a two year deal with Terry Labonte in the 44 car. We know going into ’06 that Rick Hendricks is going to have five cars on the racetrack at least ten times next year. Once we get through all of the details of working that out with those two organizations for ’06, then it’s a matter of reaching that cap of four in a reasonable period of time in the future.
Once we reach that cap, and as it applies to everybody else beginning in ’06, there will still be a feature that will allow a four car team to run a fifth car in a program that is getting a rookie ready for the following season with limited number of races attached to it. So it would be possible for someone to have five teams at one time, but that would be under a limitation as to who the driver could be, and the number of races you could put that car out there.
HELTON on Tire Leasing: tire leasing is nothing new to motorsports. But what will happen in ’06 in our national series is Goodyear will show up at the racetrack with all of the race tires that will be used at the event. And when the event is over, Goodyear will leave with every tire that was used at the racetrack for the event. If it coincides with our new test program, Goodyear will be at tests to provide tires for testing, but no team will leave with those tires after the test is over with, and that’s how the leasing program will work.
See the full transcript on my Brian France/Mike Helton 11-11-05 Transcript page.
and from ThatsRacin.com: Q&A: NASCAR’s four-team ownership limit in Nextel Cup by David Poole.(11-12-2005)
