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Originally Posted by Dale Rethke
It's funny how people still cry about payouts and costs of racing all the time.
Have you looked around the pits and seen what people use to get there?
Not too many open trailers???
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With all due respect, and I believe whole heartedly that you are entitled to your opinion, but exactly what does that have to do with anything?
Seriously.
That's like trying to argue that the payout should be based on how much money and/or property the winner has.
Really, race rigs have nothing at all to do with payouts vs. the actual cost of racing.
Facts are facts, every single thing used to actually race a car has gone up considerably in the last 15 years, some stuff as much as 100% or more. So have the fees NHRA charges.
Yet NHRA has not increased the purse for over a decade, and their policies have forced most potential contingency sponsors to refuse to be involved in the contingency program. Not to mention what NHRA spends on salaries and perks. While they pay the personnel (tech people, track crew, safety crew, etc) who actually make the races possible a mere pittance.
Really, the "look how much you have, why are you complaining?" argument is why we are where we are (that's as far as I'll go with "politics" out of respect for Ken and his rules). Again, I respect you and your opinion, and believe you are absolutely entitled to your opinion. But I vehemently disagree with the reasoning behind it.
No doubt the economy actually is really bad. Trust me when I say it has really hit home for some of us. But NHRA has simply followed a horrific business model for every thing they do for every part of the sport, and that is the single biggest reason the stands are empty, and the pits are starting to get that way. They've been on a short sighted, short term, immediate bottom line plan for a long time, and the result speaks for itself.