@Rp1racing: It does cost more money to run a wing car. I posted this to help motivate young drivers to realize that it is tough to make a living driving a sprint car. If you want to make a living driving a sprint car you pretty well better go run the wings as a driver. As a car owner you are going to lose your rear end if you run wing or non winged without sponsorship help. It cost a lot of money to run a car either way. The car owners are always going to be the big losers. But this post was asking about drivers making a living and I was just trying to show it is just about impossible unless you have a job on the side.

As far as why wings pay more is the car owners and drivers won't show up for less so the promoters and sanctioning bodies have to pay it. The reason we don't get it is because we still show up lol. Car counts are not an issue and talent at the track is not an issue so until the racers quit showing up it will never change, just the facts. I do not begrudge any promoter or sanctioning body for making as much money as they can, that is what they are in business for. I don't know if this is true or not because I have not researched it but just word of mouth. So if anyone knows the facts please correct me. But Guy Webb who own's the All Stars told me at Paragon that the purse for the 10,000 to win hoosier fall classic at Lawrenceburg was almost double the MSCS 10,000 to win show there. Which means 2nd on back really pays a lot more. I do not know what USAC'S 10,000 purse is but I imagine it is in the middle of the two. But what I would like is someone who is not affiliated with the track or sanctioning bodies that goes to both events give an estimate which event has a bigger crowd. I know the non wing events will have more cars. So if the fan counts are the same well then we all know the answer. But if the crowd is smaller for the non wing then we know why our purses are smaller. I know that I will probably get bashed but hey the truth is the truth. Like I said the reason there is a difference is they don't have to pay us more. Do you really think they would still be having wing shows if the promoters were all losing money? All they have to do is give us a little and it would make a huge difference. I have a lot of friends that race all over and tell me that our crowds and car counts are as strong as you can get right here in Indiana but we have the lowest purses.

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@ sprinter25 local wing shows in Ohio I think are min. 2,500 to win 300 to start. Penn. Knoxville and California all pay more than that I believe. I don't know but I think the main ASCS 360 deal pays 5,000 to win 500 to start. Now if you can promote that you should be able to promote non wing racing lol.