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Originally Posted by Michael Beard

This is a straw man argument. I don't know how many times the payout structure needs to be explained. (OR what this thread has to do with IHRA) When paying round money, the payout "at three cars" is dependent on the number of rounds the race goes. I've gone more rounds to get to the semis of NHRA Div. and Nat'l Opens, and still lost money on the weekend.

THE POINT of my post was for people to make informed decisions. I wasn't putting the Indy race down... we don't know hardly anything ABOUT it yet (which again, is the whole point). Just be careful, guys, because big money bracket racing went down the road of promoting only the top line on the flyer. Some promoters earned a phenomenal reputation by making racers *think* they were getting a deal. You can compare two different $20,000 to win races and find the total purse being thousands and thousands of dollars different. A racer's potential return on investment hinges on FAR more than just "how much does it pay to win?" Entry fee, buybacks (and how they are structured), car count minimums, the complete payout structure, number of days of the event, etc.

You are wasting your typing fingers (or breath) Michael....some on here have NHRA tattooed on their azz and it dosent matter what you explain to them. Its a free world and they will do what they think is good for them yet they will still bash anything else or any other race that isnt what they do. My only point in my prior post was why do they always put a race on top of any other race that is not an NHRA race? The car count would have to hurt them also for doing this. Are they that desperate to try and make the other race a looser and look bad ? The Brian Vanpople and Lee Zane race is the best thing to come along in a very long time in the payout dept. and its one reason I support it for stock and S/S no matter the towing distance. Each to their own.