| Michael Beard |
08-14-2012 09:31 AM |
Re: LODRS (lack of) Payouts
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Originally Posted by Casey Miles
(Post 340639)
Let's take the old Moroso bracket championship races, there where about 350 cars that paid $100. to enter and the pay out was $5k to the winner, $2500 to R/U, $500. to semi, $125. to the quarter and $100 to the eight with free entry to next years race for one day to the 16th. Moroso still made a bunch of money, NHRA is just raping the racers with the pay out that they have in place.
NHRA bracket finals in SGMP about 3 years ago, not sure of the entry because the track paid for it, but they only paid $100 to the semi for sportsman. That is why there weren't as many cars there last year and they had buy backs.
Casey Miles
248H "F" NHRA Stock
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You cannot compare payouts between a 350-car single class with buybacks and single promoter (ie., track vs track & sanctioning body) and a Divisional race. (And quite frankly, paying 16 cars on a 350 car race with buybacks isn't a great deal either)
I'm co-promoter of two big money bracket races, and have in the past worked for tracks and a sanctioning body, so I try to see both sides of the fence. I've run the numbers on a Class Nat'ls or All-Sportsman type event with what I as a racer thought would be "fair" entry fees and payouts, and you may be surprised how many cars are required to make a go of it.
I'm not defending the sanctioning bodies. I *am* asking that we deal in fact before making any determininations. I say again: How much does the track rental and other expenses cost, and how much net profit "should" the track and sanctioning body each make? |