Jeff Gordon says the economic meltdown is increasing the pressure on NASCAR teams to win.

And that gives the bigger teams the upper hand.

“It’s a domino effect, when the strong get stronger,” said Gordon, a four-time Cup champion for the elite Hendrick Motorsports team. “I think that, especially in a tough economy like this, we have secured sponsorship and we have the resources; it makes the gap sort of widen at times.”

Track officials and teams in all of NASCAR’s top three professional series are either still looking for sponsorship for 2009 and beyond or s...

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