Pathetic sign of the times.

moparstud440 said
Years ago there only used to be a handful of big money races. Once guys realize they could make decent $$$ at promoting and hosting big money races lots of people started doing it. There's at least 1 if not 2 or 3 big money (10K+) races every weekend it seems. With so many around racers can pick and choose which ones they go to. Seems like the same group travel to the same promotors races. I have heard of some of the not as popular promotors not being good with getting the checks out and what not. It's really hurt the avg bracket races at local tracks since no one wants to race for a $1000 anymore. In doing so the weekly bracket program payouts are horrible especially with the time we live in. For where my wife and I race one of us has to pretty much win to pay for the day of racing. We have very mild cars and run on pump gas and try to do it at a reasonable cost. I know your not going to get rich at racing but when you can barely pay for the day with a win and then have to listen to the owner complain about how much crap cost over the microphone it doesn't exactly motivate me to head to the track.

I know my local track can't get enough help as the track operator had to hand out time slips last week and the week before that she had to help man the fire crew. I know several racers that travel to the big money races and moparstud is right there seems to be one every weekend here in the tri-state area, I know it can get expensive one well known winning racer I was talking to recently told me what it cost in entry fees and it isn't cheap luckily he is very good and wins more than enough to cover the entry. I just never felt I was good enough to race the big money races. My local track just raised the pay out in all classes after years not doing so and the car counts are pretty good but could be better the track seems make more money on special races such as Nostalgia , imports, grudge etc. races , I went this past Sunday to a Nostalgia race and the place was packed. I decided to just race locally this year to due to costs but will travel in the fall for several index races if gas wasn't so expensive I would be going to Delaware this weekend for an index race.