GO GTXJohn !!!

It is $350.00 to enter i think each car= My son does the paper work.
25 years ago you would win 15,000 to 20,000.
Now just few thousand if you win.
Contingency award which were most of it are almost Gone!
Plus the ones that are left do not pay 1/2 the time!
NHRA themselves pay pennies for a purse.
I would guess we get maybe $500 or $600 with everything
for 3rd or 4th.
We do get the Mopar Top Finisher award quite a bit and that is
another $500.00

To run the six Nationals and eight Divisionals with what we spend to maintain
the cars and upgrade (We own about a dozen Race cars including 7 Stock/SS)
them to stay competitive = Already owning all the cars and most parts that are paid for=
It is well over $100,000 an year. This is not considering the $700,000 Haulmark
Toterhome and ATC 4 Car Stacker plus the equipment it takes to race these things!

In the late 1960's Bobby Warren had this on the back of his Nova Superstock:

"A few Men have become fairly Well Off from Drag Racing BUT they we Millionaires
before they started"

Bobby Warren/his Son/his Granddaughter and her husband/ still race Stock/SS
and are Nationally Competitive still today!

I sold my 64 Max Wedge and 70 Roadrunner 440/6 at the Winternationals in 77 because
I could not afford to do it any longer = I worked for 16 years to have enough money to do it again!!

I KNOW I am Crazy - but I have a lot of Company at the Track