Originally Posted by Tim Clauson:
I would invite and actually suggest any young aspiring driver who is looking to move to indiana without a pot to piss in look up Brad sweet or Justin Grant.
Both of these guys and there are others, showed up in indiana with out a lot and have done one hell of a job making there way in this sport. The guys who want to use the excuse that "well you need 50-100K to even get a look" are guys who just didn't have the talent or the mental fortitude that it takes to make it in this sport...
Every time I see that I think of Brad in his broken down truck and open trailer and his wore out race car and justin sleeping in shops and scraping mud and working his ass off to get his shot and think what a slap in the face it is to those guys and the many who have made it before them.
Tim Clauson
Tim is right about these guys! Both Brad and Justin showed there talents and got with the right people! I think Brad actually ran 6-7 cars in one season! It is still possible to meet the right people and get a shot... just very few and far between!
and as for the comment "The guys who want to use the excuse that" "well you need 50-100K to even get a look" "are guys who just didn't have the talent or the mental fortitude that it takes to make it in this sport" Does that mean the guys that pay you dont have the talent tim? What about Cole Whitt? Chris Windom? Caleb Armstrong? Ryan Kaplan? or the other half of the USAC field that has or still does pay to play? I have never used the fact that i cant pay a guy like you.... to make me faster an excuse... but that fact is unless you have 50-100 your probly going to struggle if your new to the sport and wont to find a ride!!!