40 k to travel ??? where you get your fuel from because I want that price .. teams can spend 20++ k on the trip outwest alone --- 3 or 4 trips to la belle province and one trip to the east coast ---- plus testing dates --- the fuel cost this year has been far out weighing the purse money by a long shot .....
I'm getting the CRO #00 ready to race for 10K a race. I will Qualify last do one lap and say my brakes are gone. It's 10,000 more purse money I bet.
can i start and park your car evan?
Username you can but don't get any scratches on this car as it is also a show car. haha
I'm getting the CRO #00 ready to race for 10K a race. I will Qualify last do one lap and say my brakes are gone. It's 10,000 more purse money I bet.
one hopes you are joking due to a previous thread on this site.
I found out more on this deal today from a very reliable source.
Its $10,000.00 extra for the year in 2009- which based on 20 cars per event is about a whoping $31.25 per race bonus- which wouldn't even cover a Pit Pass.
Regardless of the amount, it is being publicized because they are trying to build the car count and bring in new Race Teams for 09.
I hate to break it to them, but my original post of $10,000 per car- per event- was border line to keeping the Teams that are already there.
For a New Team to start up, they are looking at a minimum investment of $200,000.00 just for equipment and even thats low.
With that in mind, $10grand per race wouldn't be enough to cover track expenses, although it would help.
The bigger news that has brought this on, and this is being kept hush hush, is the announcement of at least 6 cars that will not be back next year for sure- all top 10 Teams
with some of the biggest sponsors in the series.
I know who the Drivers and Teams are, and have talked with them all, but I am not going to say who they are because they want to make their own announcements, and I respect them for that.
When you see the names that are leaving it is going to shock the racing world in Canada and to say the Nascar program will survive this blow is something I would not bet a single dollar on, not even $31.25 !!