[Sam Capizzi Jr]

Here's my 2cents for what it's worth....

It's very hard to justify spending $500-$800 to go to an Ihra/nhra race to win what you can win at a local track running Pro/MoD or even Street.

Also if you wanna go racing cheap build an oddball slow stocker..

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that at 35years old I might be the youngest or close to it to fund my own operation without any help from anyone simply because I love stock racing. I started with a 2K personal loan to buy my car and just put a little money here and there into my car to make it what it is today. No go fast parts. Just junkyard parts and lots of test and tunes.

No young person is going to do that these days.

I can't tell you guys how many times I waited on friday to cash my pay check just to spend it getting my face kicked in at a divisional or national. Try to sell that to someone young and new getting into this sport..