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Originally Posted by cale88
duke just wondering but how many people racing nascar didnt start with their parents money? Mark martin being one of the older guys in nascar wins the asa rookie of the year at 18 years old, so your telling me he saved enough money himself when he was in school to go asa racing at 18 years old and daad nothing to do with it?
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today you have very few hired guns out there! Its no longer drivers starting in b-circuits my first race car i drove was a 1941 hilligas v8 ford 60 midget! NO ROLL BAR NO CAGE NO WING WITH A HAND BRAKE! HOW MANY WOULD PUT THERE 12 YR.OLD IN THAT? Maybe a $800 race car! Where a usac offy midget back then cost new bout $6000 in feb 1963 a nascar race at sunshine speedway st. Pete fla. Now all this kids are trying to get to nascar!!!!!!! I started there!!!!!!!! The car was from new york and he did not have a driver i told him i was racing midgets in in. Ill ohio and he said ok! He would give me a try! Oh ****! Ask any driver over 50 how they started back then in some old ******* that looked like a million dollars! I tell you if the greatest drivers we have seen like parnelli aj unsers dickson bigelow beale bettenhausen carter ward rathman herk hewitt and many more! Had to start today as a 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 old you would have never heard of them! Cause they where not rich kids that there parents got them a $100000 dollar race car to start in! I had no money my father died in 1957 and my mom rasied 5 kids! I don't give a damm how people spend there money but its killed open wheel racing! No b-cars or circults for guys to start in open wheel! Put a $3500 claim on midgets engines and $7500 on sprint engines so a guy could own a car and hire somebody to drive it!
