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Aaron is kicking some ass this year! Glad to see a small team being able to run with big money teams and be competitive every night. Also glad to see JJR doing the same! I dont know how they make any money doing it but glad they are making it happen. 

BRM a small team? They seem as well funded as any WoO team but thats just my opinion.

They aren't making money. No one is, sponsors keep all these teams afloat. TSR and KKR might be breaking even haha.

Reutzels team a small team?  Pretty sure thats a no.  That team is having a great year tho.

Beat me to it.

Tows into Jackson vs WoO

Qualifies fourth - finishes third after passing five cars

WoO next year???

He’s not a big team. They are funded by decent sponsors and have TWO crew members. Local teams have bigger crews than that.

Local teams don’t have to pay the crew member’s living and health insurance. BRM has shown pictures of the shop with ten or so cars in it. Do local teams have that kind of inventory? 

Blake

Out there making it work with dudes they call jimbob and cheeseburger. Doesn’t get any better then that

Lol thank you. They are an outlaw caliber team. Whether they have 2 big sponsors or 50 little ones... They are well funded.

Going to go "way out on a limb" and predict the 87 team runs the Outlaw tour in 2020.

I'm also going to predict the sun is going to come up tomorrow.

And finally I'm going to (continue to) predict my Pittsburgh Steelers will be mediorce/stink until Mike Tomlin is fired.

Heard they were gonna run ASCoC again next year. Obviously things can change between now and February. I actually think it would be smart for them to continue to run all-stars, win a bunch of races and a championship, and still able to hit a bunch of outlaw races and all the big ones.

Ascoc and a bit of an outlaw schedule seems to work for them. Some almost guaranteed point fund money plus a lot of freedom to pick and choose.  Being tied to the Allstars seems to have a lot more freedom than being tied to the WoO.

I understand there isnt much incentive for a WoO to join the all stars on their night off.

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I'd be curious if someone totaled up the BRM#87 earnings for this season. From my quick math... 17 wins this season (including $10k WoO win, $12k @ Atomic, & $52k @ Port), then add in the $50k from the ASCoC champion purse.... Thats nearly $200k in earnings without tallying any races where he didnt win. Add in those and I'm guessing that would put him around $250-300k+ in earnings. That number is higher than what a lot of WoO teams are currently at. And honestly Reutzel got off to a slow start in 2019 (first ASCoC win was in late May) and he also had a handful of DNFs. If he were to return to ASCoC next year I don't think its out of the question for him to win 25 races.

Much more money to be had with the Outlaws .... Above is Reutzel's winnings at 18 wins, including the $52K from theTuscy

Schatz has half the wins Reutzel does and has him by $50K

Reutzel is averging $1000 less per race than Schatz.

Please explain your math, I'm not following.

Like I said, Reutzel got $52K from one win. If he lost the Tusky he would be $100K behind Schatz ...

Take into account the month in California with no races, I guess the All Stars missed about 10 in a row, but travel expenses of Stars vs Woo and I would think Aaron is ahead,, not counting sponsors as we dont know their level of support.

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More money but also better competition...

https://worldofoutlaws.com/sprintcars/at-a-glance-aaron-reutzel-calls-his-shot-for-the-national-open-at-williams-grove/

Aaron states that he will not run the WoO Tour until his daughter is a full-time student, so 2023 RoY is locked up.

If he runs the ASCOC for 4 more years he’ll re-write all the record books