Originally Posted by DonMoore10:
Staggerman, that is exactly my point!! The midget owners/drivers cannot have it both ways!! You can't have it one way in Oklahoma at what most people call the biggest midget event of the year and have it another way in Indiana. One of two things needs to happen.
1. The midget/owners and drivers boycott the event... or
2. Some how, some way, the midget owners/drivers bring intense pressure on the promoters there to pay a respectable purse. By that I mean something like $25,000 to win and pay a respectable purse on back. That would include boosting the purse considerably for each preliminary night... for example $5,000 to win and a respectable purse for the positions on back.
But until this "Oklahoma Gold Rush" attitude goes away, all of you are wasting ur time even talking about larger midget purses for the outdoor season. It's not gonna happen as long as these two guys pay pennies to race midgets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When are all of you ever going to figure this out and get real?
That's why I never could understand why people are so wrapped up in how much a race pays to win. Only one team gets the winners share. What a race pays to start, is the key. Also, what does 10th through 24th pay???
Look at the Knoxville Nationals. Though it pays something like $140k to win, it also pays something like $5k for the first non transfer out of the "C MAIN"!!!
It's going to be interesting to see the car count for the $15k to win midget race at Granite City this Fall. Considering who is promoting it, I seriously doubt that the payback will be too good. USAC is off that weekend and it is PowerI sanctioned...