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BROOKLYN, Mich. – Without question, competition is the lifeblood of NASCAR – be it from behind the wheel, along pit road, watching from the stands or in front of a TV.

Without it, we might as well be playing tiddlywinks or cross-stitching cardigan sweaters. B-o-r-i-n-g.

Because the sport is so competition-driven, with high speeds, daring and dicing maneuvers between cars, and yes, the invariable crashes, it's no mystery why NASCAR has grown into the second most popular sport in the U.S., with some of the most diehard and devoted fans in all of sports.

Yet NASCAR has a problem that, unless it changes soon, could lead to a nasty negative backlash from those fans – and some teams – in the very near future.

I'm referring to the sheer domination this season by just two teams: Roush Racing and Hendrick Motorsports. Heading into Sunday's Batman Begins 400 at Michigan International Speedway, the Roush and Hendrick organizations have combined to win 12 of the first 14 races.  Those two teams are blowing away the competition, and NASCAR may need to do something about it.

For those keeping score at home: Roush has seven wins (including four by Greg Biffle) and Hendrick has five (including three by Jeff Gordon). Combined, the teams are winning at a nearly 86-percent clip.

Yes, 86 percent! That's almost as high as the house's winning percentage at a casino. Ask any bookie and he'll tell you picking against Roush or Hendrick winning is a sucker's bet.

It's enough to make fans of other teams and drivers – let alone the actual teams and drivers themselves – become increasingly discouraged week after week as yet another Roush or Hendrick driver motors into victory lane.

With 22 races left in the season, and more importantly, just 12 races left to qualify for the Chase for the Nextel Cup, the list of notable drivers not from the Roush or Hendrick camps who have yet to win a race this season reads like a who's who: Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Bobby Labonte, Dale Jarrett, Elliott Sadler, Ryan Newman, Rusty Wallace, Jamie McMurray and Ricky Rudd.

Usually by this point in the season, a few of those guys would have collected at least one win. Only Richard Childress Racing's Kevin Harvick (Bristol) and Evernham Motorsports' Kasey Kahne (Richmond) have managed to keep Roush or Hendrick out of victory lane on any given weekend.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the Roush or Hendrick organizations. I give them credit for finding various ways to take the checkered flag, with much of the reason for their success being their ability to master this season's new spoiler/tire combination better than any other organization.

But having a Roush or Hendrick car in victory lane week after week after week is starting to become, well, pick a word: mundane, dull, routine, commonplace, unexciting, humdrum, monotonous, tedious, uninteresting …

Or perhaps the best word truly is "boring."

NASCAR chairman Brian France and president Mike Helton should be very concerned. Because they seemingly have smarter engineers and crew chiefs right now, the Roush and Hendrick camps not only are winning but also are inadvertently doing damage to the sport.

If the Roush/Hendrick dominance continues, fans of other teams and drivers soon may turn their loyalties away, feeling the sport isn't fun anymore. And if other drivers don't think they have a chance to win, the No. 1 element that has made stock car racing so popular – intense competition – will be diminished.

There's no easy solution to the problem. How do you keep a certain organization from winning without sheer and utter discrimination against them? How can you penalize someone for winning too much? Intentionally stacking the deck against a certain team or organization wouldn't be fair.

But there is one possibility. If there ever were a time for NASCAR to contemplate limiting organizations to two or three cars/teams to make things more competitive and give more drivers a chance to win, now is obviously that time.

Does Jack Roush really need five Nextel Cup teams? Can't Rick Hendrick get by with only two or three Cup teams?

More cars per team means more information gained and shared, and more chances to win. Limiting the number of cars per stable could curb a team's strength.

Sure, NASCAR is as much a business as it is a sport. And if business generates opportunity, that typically translates into more cars. But at some point, NASCAR as a sanctioning body has to step in and tell organizations and sponsors that they have to spread the wealth around.

Otherwise, if things continue going the way they are now, don't be surprised if teams that continue to be shut out of victory lane begin closing up shop and, like their fans, start fading away.

Winning is the fun part of racing. As the old saying goes, to the victors go the spoils.

But what fun is it if you can't win because the other guys have a stranglehold on success that they won't give up?

  Anybody remember the year that Winston Cup went the 1st 15 races and had 15 different winners. I dont remember what year but I know it happened one year. Bet we dont see that happen again.

  Helton