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Originally Posted by Ed Wright
Art, what I was told by one sponsor, that there are too many classes to have to pay. If no racer collects it, NHRA keeps the uncollected money. It's gotten to be too many classes for them to have to pay, especially if no cars run the class. That is one of the major sponsors I was talking to. I know you have also been around long enough to remember class win money, and the product many of them handed out to everybody. Not any longer.
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Ed I suggested to Charlie. That they give trophies to a classes represented but just pay contingency if there were 2 or more cars. Would that not satisfy the sponsors? He rapidly said no way. All this nonsense stemmed from some crybabies at Indy a few years ago. When some class winners bumped out a couple of fairhaired boys. I was confronted by one and told him that if it was a 2 car (only) qualified field. Could he make the program?
I then told him "I could". It went right over his head.
Ed I could lose a ton of weight. But "Get Better Looking"? I don't think so!!! LOL