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Unless you are a car owner (2 in my case) you can't really imigine just how much this sport costs. A $100K a year is a pretty good starting point if you race weekly (or more) and want to run up front, (Ventura excepted). And if you don't own a trucking company, a string of body shops or a meat packing plant (and have a place to expense/hide the cost) you have to earn $150K to have the $100K after taxes (Bigfish I don't expect you to understand that tax reality so trust me). Point being, the $25 transponder fee or whatever it is at Perris is not the reason for declining counts (do you really think someone would quit racing over that?). Look at the NHRA, they are saying they do not expect to have enough fuel cars to fill 16 car fields in the professional classes.Do you think Prudhomme is going to field one less car cus he is pissed at the NHRA? This deal is simple economics and in this economy car owners are wondering, "can I afford to keep doing this?", folks. Don't sit in the stands and moan about USAC, WoO or whoever and declining car counts. Methanol has doubled in price in the last year, the weekly right rear is 200 bucks and the cost of diesel is thru the roof and 401k's are shrinking. USAC had nothing to do with this.

Do you want to do something about it? Find a driver/team/car you like and go into the pits and buy them a RR, a drum of fuel or pay their pit passes to the next race. If you are loaded help them w/ a $7000 engine rebuild. It all helps. Then, you will be entitled to bitch and speculate all you want.

Unless you are a car owner (2 in my case) you can't really imigine just how much this sport costs. A $100K a year is a pretty good starting point if you race weekly (or more) and want to run up front, (Ventura excepted). And if you don't own a trucking company, a string of body shops or a meat packing plant (and have a place to expense/hide the cost) you have to earn $150K to have the $100K after taxes (Bigfish I don't expect you to understand that tax reality so trust me). Point being, the $25 transponder fee or whatever it is at Perris is not the reason for declining counts (do you really think someone would quit racing over that?). Look at the NHRA, they are saying they do not expect to have enough fuel cars to fill 16 car fields in the professional classes.Do you think Prudhomme is going to field one less car cus he is pissed at the NHRA? This deal is simple economics and in this economy car owners are wondering, "can I afford to keep doing this?", folks. Don't sit in the stands and moan about USAC, WoO or whoever and declining car counts. Methanol has doubled in price in the last year, the weekly right rear is 200 bucks and the cost of diesel is thru the roof and 401k's are shrinking. USAC had nothing to do with this.

Do you want to do something about it? Find a driver/team/car you like and go into the pits and buy them a RR, a drum of fuel or pay their pit passes to the next race. If you are loaded help them w/ a $7000 engine rebuild. It all helps. Then, you will be entitled to bitch and speculate all you want.

my point yo you china girl is I have always had to travel to see a sprint car race. For you who don't, and have to find things to complain about, then go to ventura. But if you want to become a star in nonwing sprimt car racing, evevntually you are going to have to put a 410 under your cover. I am also sure that it takes less $$ to run a 360. And as far as the backit in comment, kiss my backside

If someone like Shuman was running the show under a different banner it would be alot different out at the Pas. And the guys at Ventura are stars and could run with the boys in Usac/cra... And as far as kissing your backside, NO THANKS, it's worn out!!!!

if you knew much about sprint car racing, you'd know that as popular as Ronnie is with me and most other people, they were complaining with him also. You need to go back to China

Unless you are a car owner (2 in my case) you can't really imigine just how much this sport costs. A $100K a year is a pretty good starting point if you race weekly (or more) and want to run up front, (Ventura excepted). And if you don't own a trucking company, a string of body shops or a meat packing plant (and have a place to expense/hide the cost) you have to earn $150K to have the $100K after taxes (Bigfish I don't expect you to understand that tax reality so trust me). Point being, the $25 transponder fee or whatever it is at Perris is not the reason for declining counts (do you really think someone would quit racing over that?). Look at the NHRA, they are saying they do not expect to have enough fuel cars to fill 16 car fields in the professional classes.Do you think Prudhomme is going to field one less car cus he is pissed at the NHRA? This deal is simple economics and in this economy car owners are wondering, "can I afford to keep doing this?", folks. Don't sit in the stands and moan about USAC, WoO or whoever and declining car counts. Methanol has doubled in price in the last year, the weekly right rear is 200 bucks and the cost of diesel is thru the roof and 401k's are shrinking. USAC had nothing to do with this.

Do you want to do something about it? Find a driver/team/car you like and go into the pits and buy them a RR, a drum of fuel or pay their pit passes to the next race. If you are loaded help them w/ a $7000 engine rebuild. It all helps. Then, you will be entitled to bitch and speculate all you want.

Now there's a sensible post! Nice job of explaining the issues. And I'll committ to buying one of the teams a Right Rear this season! Thanks for taking the time to set us straight.

Bob Whitaker