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Originally Posted by KKinser99
Anyone who disagrees with payout discussed please give your opinion on what payout should be . We need to have dialogue to see where everyone stands.
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I think that using Eagle as your point of reference is a mistake. Eagle is an outlier. The promoter and the 360 guys could not get along. He brought in the Racesaver guys to replace the 360 guys. He is paying them more as a bridge between the two groups. Also, Racesaver Sprints are still the premiere class at Eagle.
Racesaver is not going to be the premiere class at Bloomington. Thus, they are not going to be paid like the premiere group. They are going to be paid like a support division. I would imagine that their purse is going to be the same or less than the modifieds.
As I posted in the original thread, when the series started back in the Dallas Fort Worth area 7-9 years ago, it paid well to start but not very good at all to win. It was not unheard of to pay $200 to start but only $300 to win. The idea was that everyone was going to make back the money they spent to get to the track, but no one was going to make money in the class. I have not been in DFW for several years, so I do no know if this is still the case.
I am sure that when the promoter decided to add this class they looked at it being a back gate/cost neutral class meaning that all of the purse was going to be paid for by the back gate. I really do not believe that they added this class thinking that it was going to do a lot to drive ticket sales at the front gate. If the front gate says the same, the money has to come from the back gate.
Finally, you need to look at the home page of the Racesaver web site. It is pretty clear what an ideal purse would be from the sanctioning body point of view.
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