CLASS RACER FORUM - View Single Post - Comp racers seek to show eliminator is very much alive

Jeff Niceswanger · 03-28-2017, 01:04 PM

We started in 98. The NHRA payouts are the same as back then. But there's half as many contingency's. I bought my first Superstock engine for ten grand. A new one was 13 ( from Koewn, our builder back then) , so I bought used . Now compare that to today . New ones are 35, 40 with all the whistles ...
Back then there was top qualifier money also, I remember some went for that, as it paid their fuel bill to get to and from the races.

Someone had the Sportnationals from Diamond P ( remember them !) on facebook last week and the commentator was saying that the winner < Bobby Warren, just won 8 thousand dollars ....In 1978.... That's the same as last years US Nationals SS winner ( if everybody pays him) .....40 years later

03-28-2017, 01:04 PM	#3
Jeff Niceswanger Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 893 Likes: 679 Liked 1,023 Times in 368 Posts	Re: Comp racers seek to show eliminator is very much alive We started in 98. The NHRA payouts are the same as back then. But there's half as many contingency's. I bought my first Superstock engine for ten grand. A new one was 13 ( from Koewn, our builder back then) , so I bought used . Now compare that to today . New ones are 35, 40 with all the whistles ... Back then there was top qualifier money also, I remember some went for that, as it paid their fuel bill to get to and from the races. Someone had the Sportnationals from Diamond P ( remember them !) on facebook last week and the commentator was saying that the winner < Bobby Warren, just won 8 thousand dollars ....In 1978.... That's the same as last years US Nationals SS winner ( if everybody pays him) .....40 years later __________________ Jeff Niceswanger 3740 SS Last edited by Jeff Niceswanger; 03-28-2017 at 01:36 PM. Reason: added