I'm confused about IHRA's Sportsman friendliness

[novassdude]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

A purse needs to not only pay for itself, but also produce a net percentage. At 40 cars, you're asking the promoters to take an additional hit of $2,400 to $2,700 per class, close to $13,000 per event. In order to keep the net percentage of the typical SS car count, it would require roughly 80 cars in Super Stock to pay the same purse as T/S, in which case you would also have to make it to the 4th round before receiving any money. 80 cars. And that's for $2,500 to win. To really draw cars, does it need to be $5K/win or $10K/win? Now what do those numbers have to be?

With your example of A purse needs to pay for itself, but also produce a net percentage. How can you justify the TS pay out. From the numbers at that race they were far from paying for them self's let alone putting any thing into the tracks pocket. I really think that is the point that Gary is trying to make.