Saturday’s failure to make the field [at Montreal] did more damage as a result of the financial toll that missing the field brings. “I had to let just about everybody go on Monday when we got back,” Shepherd said. “We will go to Atlanta and I will just have to do it pretty much by myself. We just can’t pay people when we don’t have anything coming in.” Monday’s layoffs included many shop and track crew personnel, including crew chief Morris Van Vleet. The cutbacks leave the team with just one shop mechanic and one track crew member. Shepherd said if the team doesn’t get some sponsorship soon or if it fails to make the starting field at Atlanta that he will have to make some tough decisions. “There is no quit in us, but we can only go so far without money. We’ll see after Atlanta what we are able to do.”(Race with Faith PR)(9-2-2009)
