Originally Posted by BKSG1198 (Post 240465)

D1 I understand where your coming from but, beggers can't be choosers either. I can't call up a company and ask for sponsorship for this race and when they offer Gift Cards I tell them Nah, No Thanks I wanted Cash. Companies remember that and come the next year when I call up and ask again there going to tell me to go pound sand. I have to go with what they are offering me. I would be happy that I'm even searching for sponsors. I could have just said "OK 5K on the table, winner take all, no contingency...good luck".
I mean it's also only February I still have 6 more months to work on stuff like slicks, more stuff towards racing and motorhome gas (yes I've thought about the travel that the racers put into this and I plan on giving back)...Numidia is a 4 1/2 hour drive for me so I'm not just stepping out of my house and at the track! Remember all these sponsors are putting up money for the race...
Ken Moses Race Transmissions
Lucky’s Race Cars
GAS – Goldman Autorace Specialties
Motorsports Innovation
Select Transmissions
Numidia Dragway
TRC - Total Race Components
Hudson Performance
S&W Race Cars

The "Enhancements" that they are putting on us is insane and everyone keeps taking and taking it. Trust me I will put money on it that even with 5k on the line some D1 racers will still travel to Charlotte and Bowling Green because it's NHRA and they want a wally. I talked with a fellow S/G racer the other night on the phone and he told me to get to and from Charlotte last year was over $600 in fuel! You add that onto entry fee, crew fee, food, sitting around for 5 days so you can win $1,800 plus contingency's that come 6 months later or because your converter was built in 2005 and is out of date they are not going to pay you....so sorry that I make my stuff last. I know it's a "Poor Man's Sport" and if we did it for the $$$ we must have been drinking too much the night before but, I love the family atmosphere the bonding that I have with my father and the competitiveness that we all share inside to win. I mean it's time for some of us to stand up and have a voice and balls and venture out on our own. I see the writing on the wall for .90 racing and it's very very bleak and as far as I'm concerned I still have a good 20 to 30 years of racing left in me and I want to see the .90 classes survive and the only way it will happen is if someone takes a stand now.