Old man and we were super low budget all the time and could not afford to race anything RUSH.
Cars were built out of swap meet parts engines and chassis and payouts use to get you to the track and in the door for another race.
Got into car racing via sweat equity and low low money available >>>giving payout and tow money to our car owner<<< and I got second car to the track and in the door 3 nights a week.
But bought a LOT of nuts and bolts etc..
2nd year with the car owner/driver of the better car who was on disability I learned he made $32,000 that year in 2003.
He did tell me years later that when we were with him he always had a buck in his pocket.
just as an example: Lernerville for us went from Outlaw Show guaranteed $260 a car plus our throw away tire supply for the year or until the next Outlaw Show, drivers getting fed well and if you need anything just ask, to when the WoO took over we no longer could afford to race there.
I appreciate watching the RUSH racers but RUSH is just too damn expensive to be called any kind of starter or cheap class.
There in it for the buck and getting IMHO at least $1000 or probably more out of each car each year.
They stole or cut into a nitch of racing taking low funded better racers and high funded entry level racers and bastardized a lot of classes with the stocks at Lernerville being a prime example.
I think their business goal is not to support but to push out an many established classes as possible to gain a no cost to them place for their customers to race. Never forget their customers are not us fans in the stand their customers are racers and tracks.
... low budget racers still exist but sadly the 3 night a week B mains with 24 cars being paid for the feature does not.
Car owner and us raced sprints because if your going to race win or loose "shouldn't you race the fast stuff" because racing is to see whose fastest?
And because of tow money, payout and if you know swap meet parts pricing to build cars and engines, sprints were the cheapest thing to race.
Thanks to speck racing, mandated bullshit by promoters to get into the racers pocket, caring about the back gate more than the front for the fans and bitching by a few racers bringing down the number of car feature payout from 24 to 20 eliminating any payout for 4 cars: YOU JUST CAN'T DO THAT ANYMORE
Edited by dirtstudent2, 01 January 2025 - 11:23 AM.
