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I personally felt a little cheated as a fan when Sammy was taken out of contention (it was a racing deal). Also everyone wants to continue to bash the swindells. They race midgets once a year and are the cars to beat. If someone doesn't like how they race do something about it, feed them a wheel. What is way more troubling to me is what the chili bowl has become. Fans at home watching it can't see it, but it is way out of hand. Outside of going on a vacation, but I haven't figured out why people bring their cars to race. If you don't bring a specialized chili bowl specific car you're wasting your time. Sure there are a few exceptions, Hines and messaraul put theirs in the show, but they aren't going to win. The lengths and dollars a lot of teams are going to for one race is astronomical, you would think some of the teams have nasa sponsoring their efforts. And that brings me on to the event itself. Yeah it's a really cool deal. Fantastic racing, checkers or wreckers style, can't take anything away from the show that it puts on. But 10,000 to win? Really? It could be 100,000 to win and they would still laugh their way to the bank afterwards. For just a Thursday Friday Saturday pit pass it was $135 and I couldn't even sit down and watch a race. The chili bowl has become an elite club race, it may as well be an invitational. They need to start paying the competitors and it's finally time to make some rules. I know full well that at the end of day resources resourcefulness preparation and talent equal wins, but at least give some people a shot. End of rant.
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