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Ever since I have been particpating on this board the talk of ride buying continually crops up, I have several questions and observations hopefully you can help me with. First question what dollar amount is required to buy a ride? When did the ride buying start? What racing divisions survive on ride buying? As sponsorship money dries up will ride buying become more and more prevalent?
Unless I am misunderstanding, my observation is we are always talking about ride buying in the IRL and that foreigners are the only ones that can afford it. PSullivan, provided an impressive list of racers with open wheel short track racing experience that have competed at Indy, I know several of the people on that list personally, I also know they had to take a sizeable amount of money with them for their chance to drive at Indy. What was it called when they got their chance to run in the Indy 500, when they brought money to the race team?
How many USAC teams require a driver bring cash or sponorship money to obtain a ride in the USAC divisions?
Patti
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