Talked with a buddy of mine last weekend. He has worked for Dodge Motorsports for the last few years but is in another division now. He says yes, the budget has been cut back due to obvious economic reasons. Dodge will focus all of their engineering on Penske Motorsports. Both are optimistic because all of the work will be on the Penske cars and will not have numerous distractions of trying to get the struggling teams up to speed as in the past.
Yes, Kasey Kahne will be one of the Fords of RPM racing.