Let me get this straight.

[JSLRacing]

Some Stock and Super Stock racers bring their cars to the track in stacker haulers much like a Nascar Hauler. This hauler would get around 5 mpg on a good day..

So people drive across country spending thousands on fuel, spend $300 plus for entry fee, plus fuel for the car and hotel room... to win a few thousand if they win the race.

Is this some sort of ego thing as it does not make very good financial sense to travel this way?

Please tell me if I'm wrong here..

[james schaechter]

if the money thing (with racing and especially class racing) is just hitting you, there is still time for you to drop your tools and run like hell.

[JSLRacing]

I guess my open trailer and pick-up will look strange in the pits!!

[james schaechter]

Don't forget, they haven't made a class to race stackers. When those guys lose first round, you can move into a nicer spot.

[Bobby Fazio]

Originally Posted by james schaechter

Don't forget, they haven't made a class to race stackers. When those guys lose first round, you can move into a nicer spot.

hahaha that's what I do! Some say it is bad luck

[randy wilson]

They can haul with whatever they can afford, totally their business.

[Doug Blackley]

Originally Posted by JSLRacing

I guess my open trailer and pick-up will look strange in the pits!!

Nah don't worry; there's still a few of us open trailer pulled by pickup/suv guys out here.

[Ken Miele]

Jason,

Not sure how long you have been racing or how old your are, but yes you are wrong with most of your presumptions.

Most racers do not race for financial gain, that's number one. Your statement about wining a few thousand dollars is also wrong. A National Event win with just 30 plus contingency decals will bring you 10,000 or more. Not enough to pay for your season unless you win a few, but it is still more than a few thousand.

Ego, yes you are right, but I suspect you also race because of ego. To say you don't is only kidding yourself.

As far as the big rigs go, what's wrong with a person spending that kind of money? If it makes them happy and they have money to spend, who is to say they should not.

Putting a price on a good time is only an issue if you don't have the money to spend. Its obvious they do and they will.

Jason, don't worry about the guy ahead of you, just look at the guy behind you. Life is so much better when you appreciate what you have and not worry about what you don't. They are having fun, and when its all said a done, and we are dead, what the hell did life mean if you didn't have a little fun along the way.

Don't take this personal Jason, its just that the way you framed your post leaves me to believe you might have issues with racers who spend lots of money.

[JSLRacing]

Good response...and you are correct.

I don't care what a guy spends.. in the end it's you versus the clock and reaction time.

I started racing in 1997 with a championship in my very first year.

Call me cheap or a Conservative but I can see a Top Fuel team with a 20 mil budget using a hauler.. not a stocker team.

I picture a motorhome and a enclosed trailer... not a $200 000 Peterbuilt Hauler with all the bling.

To each their own but I know I would be divorced if I came home with a hauler and a $100 000 race car.. You guys must have understanding spouses..

[Jim Wahl]

Originally Posted by JSLRacing

I guess my open trailer and pick-up will look strange in the pits!!

Yeah, tell that to Michael Beard. He wins a few now and then without a stacker and a Kenworth! You two could pit next to each other. Jim