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Rockledge, Florida

[Barney B]

Just a thought;
I just spent the weekend at our awards banquet for Summit Motorsports Park. One thing that Bill Bader brought up is our lack of gatitude. Acording to him and the sponsors no one ever sends thank you's anymore when they receive contingency money.
We have to remember they do not have to pay it, they pay it to say "thanks for using our product" we can at least send a note back saying "thanks for your generosity"
I know I am going to get busted for this but I do believe he is right and I think it would help us all.

BB bust away.

FYI; SMP pays contingency on the spot for company's, some as much as $150.00 to win!
I can collect over $300.00 in contingency for a regular nights win, paid in cash on the spot!

[GaryGoFast]

In a perfect world, NHRA would collect all the contingency money prior to each season & distribute it to the racers accordingly. For their efforts, they would be able to keep the interest generated as it waited to be disbursed.

[Bryan Gillespie]

Hopefully this year I' ll have that problem. (not getting paid for contingency)
But I always say no pay no stay (stickers).

[Furr]

Barney is right on. I call all of them that owe me money at the end of the year and try to collect but I tell each of them thanks for posting contingency. They certainly are not obligated to post contingency and without the contingency suddenly you are paying $250 to race for $1800. No one would show up for that payout.
And the NHRA list is only a little light, IHRA list looks really weak so far.

Steve Furr

[THE LEGEND]

Super Chevy used to pay on the spot, and IHRA/Summit had a local track deal once that paid on the spot.

IHRA took the hit last year. This years list not much different, and at least the ones that post usually pay pretty quick.

I always tell them thanks because they don't have to post. Say whay you want but without contingency money how many would go.

I thought long and hard about going to PBIR this weekend. I can only win about $3800. I decided to Spend that money later and take a couple more weeks to make sure car is right.

Chip

[JJ3159]

jw owes me from a few years ago,i runnerd up at pitt div 3 times and got nothing from jw

[frank v]

They certainly are not obligated to post contingency and without the contingency suddenly you are paying $250 to race for $1800. No one would show up for that payout.


Steve Furr[/QUOTE]

but if they are not paying, you basicly are racing for $1800.

[BKSG1198]

Sadly we live in a "What have you done for me lately society" not "What I did a year ago". People want to get paid ASAP they don't want to wait 6 months or a year to get paid for something that happened in the past. You get work done on your house or car you can't tell the construction or mechanic I'll pay you in about a year or so, guess what all the new things you had put on your house would be taken down faster then they were put up. The thing is and I agree a little bit with the Thank You to the sponsors and if there is a sponsor that pays on the spot or quickly after you won a race I'll send a Thanks or give them a hand shake at the next race I go too but, you can't wait a year to get paid....it's just that simple. You buy the product, you pay on a timely basis, you use the product, there should be no 9, 10, 11 or 12 month delays in getting you your cash or have to have a PILE FULL OF PAPERWORK saying when you bought the product and if it's past a 3 year period of time then you don't get paid. I mean you can't control when things are going to break, I mean we run on a shoestring budget sometimes and some of the parts on our car are close to 5 to 10 years old and they lasted that long due to keeping it taken care of. I mean it could last 5 runs or 200 runs, you never know but don't punish the consumer because your products lasted that long...Just my 2 cents