It is time to change the Point System

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Hagen Gary

Don,
Please don't misquote me in an attempt to make it seem like I should agree with you.
The money would come from the races I won, and the points from those wins would be the reason i decide to use that surplus money to chase the Title. If not, I'm ok with the 8 races I go to a year. I have to assume that is the case with 90% of the racers.
Lets talk about rasing payouts

At the current cost of travel, I don't think you could win races and hope to have the winnings generate enough funding to chase points. At best, you could hope for the wins to generate some external support from potential or current sponsors. And at the sportsman level, damned little of that.

Unless you race on a shoestring that is thinner than the one Michael Beard races on, the winnings from one race might fund the attendance of one race, not counting regular wear and tear costs, and not counting contingency payments which are constantly shrinking. You'd have to have a nearly unbroken string of wins, with the rest being final round appearances, with maybe a semi final round finish here and there. If you did that well, you wouldn't need to travel much, or far, in most divisions.