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Originally Posted by DAD
The title of this post should be "How to get good pit help". You got to get them before you pay them. I have tried many ways to get good pit help. I have paid up to $500.00 a night. Giving the entire wining for the night to them, to even offering my hired help at the shop overtime pay plus expenses to help at the races.
The best help that I ever had on a race car was to offer a guy a ride in the back up car. For this I got help in the evenings keeping the race cars up, help at the track on the main car and help keeping his car running also. One kid in particular was super energetic and added greatly to the program. We did this set up for several years and it worked out great for all of us.
Racing is a particularly strange game. If you have it in your blood you will do it for nothing. If it is not in your blood no amount of money will bring you on board. Life now days demand much more from people than it did in the past, also there are so many other ways to spend your leisure time. Help will always be a problem. The guy that shows up with 4 or 5 helpers always amazes me, I think to myself that guy has some super personality or pocketbook or both to be blessed with such help.
Honest Dad himself  |
DAD, you know how it pains me to agree with you, but in this case I'm forced to, I'm like you, real short of help, and unable anymore to do it all myself, best I can hope for is a driver, who will help as well as drive, then we decide who gets what, I wish things were different, but they aren't, in my youth, I would have stood in line, like I did in the Military, for a chance to help someone, and did on a lot of occasions, that's when my wife, and a lot of others, were "volunteering" to score, sell pit passes, whatever just so we could race, not many got paid, kinda like racing go-karts for a living? I got an attic full of trophies, and have found no way to cook them, so they can be eaten. I fail to understand where/how some of these guys get all the help, I've been lucky at times, for a couple of years, I had an all girl pit crew, they were friends of one of my drivers, and came along, just to meet other drivers, both were good help, and paid their own way too! Bob