middohead you must like last place have you very pLACE IN THE TOP FIVE. GET OFF THE SPELLING AND GRAMMER MISTAKE AND ANSWER QUESTION. BECAUSE YOU NO ALL THE STATMENT ARE ALL TURE.
If you have a point to make, make it. If you are just going to bash people and cause a disturbance, take it somewhere else.
Greasemonkey.
Greasemonkey see you thurs night at sunset with your greasy hands. Bring the hand cleaner.
roger the dodger
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You obviously don't know anything.
GM.
not meaning to pick sides....
But i really appreciate Dave posting in here as people like me ahve no clue of the innerworkings of the NCTS. Every post he makes i learn somethng new and i thank you for that. My family is close friends with an old owner who ran the pizza pizza CASCAR with John Gaunt. They lost over 100,000.00 in one weekend on motors and it sank them for the year...after hearing all of these old stories, they dont seem so old...why not run LLM and save some money and possibly have more fun?
Thanks Barrie97, and as for running a Late Model for fun it sounds good and others do take that posistion. We stopped racing for fun 30 years ago, and now do this for a living, so the fun has been taken out of the picture.
Saying that, I am sure you will understand that in order to do this for a living you must run in a series that provides Sponsors with a bigger piece of the pie. Everything to do with racing is part of your sponsorship proposal, and they want to see a TV package, and a touring series that covers all across Canada.
Thats just the way it is !!
I completely understand. My brother races semi-pro national snocross....and we go through the same stuff with our sponsors....its hard to get them cause the only race he might be on national TV is in Quebec...a TV contract is everything. I understand that when you race for a living its no longer for fun...but if these figures are right, and you ahve no spnsor..pardon me for asking...but how in the helll areyou making a living? lol
Racing for a living is a tough go and unless you have any business sense at all, you need to stay as far away from this venture as possable.
Number One- you have to be solid in the no debt deal.
Number Two- you have to look at the program as a building factor, one year you make money, the next you don't, so be prepared.
Number Three- you must maintain a level of competition that is good for both of you- the Series and the Sponsor.
Number Four- you can never look back and say I should have done this- I should have done that- we should have promoted this way- it comes down to getting it right, right out of the box.
You get one chance at making a deal happen, and to continue that deal you better know what you are talking about right from the get go because second chances are few and far between.
I make a living from racing because I spread my wings and entertain both the Drivers, the Sponsors, the Fans, and the Series, and at the end of the day, you should know where your focus is.
It is far from simple, and it is far from a nontouchable deal, but when everything is said and done, you have to focus on the reality of racing, and is it all worth while.
Sometimes I think selling a NFL deal would be allot easier, but even those guys play by the same rules and it always comes down to win or loose- how hard did you try !!