Why Aren't You Racing?

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Originally Posted by 71mavlouisville

Do any of you guys/gals have young children in competition extracurricular activities? If you think racing is expensive try competition dance with 2 girls. Entry fees for solo's are around $85 and the only payout is if you win first overall, usually 30-40 dancers, and that money goes back to the studio. Then there are entry fees for duo's, trio's, and all the group dances. Your child could be dancing in 12-13 separate dances. Add the cost of costumes for each dance, private lessons, tuition and the nationals usually require travel also for the whole family. At least at a points meet you have a chance of winning something. My shop neighbor competes in the Trans-Am series with a $100,000 + car, he went to Wisconsin a couple of weekends ago, placed 4th and won $0.00, they do comp the fuel though! lol, drag racing is not so bad. Ashton 4373

scca trans am pays out to the racers $3000, 2000, 1000, 500, 250 plus contigency money. Plus for $100k look at the seat time he gets, compared to $100k for a stang stocker. Plus they get some tv coverage as well.

I love drag racing, always will, but for the money $100k for a stocker think of what you could get for that. And even if you build a $20k or $30k stocker its alot. Just an example, to buy a legends car $10k, porsche spec 944 $6500, American iron mustang $14000, karting $3000 to $8000.

I always wonder how some do it, traveling, taking off from work, the expenses. When i ran my stocker i figured $1k a weekend, hotels, entry, gas, tolls, gas for the car, food etc.. It sucks because the sport is great but nhra is adding more classes, less track time, less money to win more to pay.

hopefully something will change!