I remember winning a feature at the Green County Speedway (now defunct) in 1993, this was a special race and I won $1000, The next night I won a special race at Brownstown and won $800. Most of the time the mods got around $300 and never more than $500. Now the going amount is around $600 to win at most tracks. So, the mods are really racing for less and most have big dollar engines that cost from $20,000 to $50,000 and I won lots of races with a $2000 engine back in the 90's. So now no one would make any money if they won every race in a mod. Back then gasoline was about $1 per gallon and now it is over $4 and raising. When I first started racing years ago gasoline was about 25 cents per gallon and I used 100 avgas at 50 cents per gallon. In 1962 I remember working as an equipment operator out of the union for around $3 per hour and now they are paying over $34 per hour. In about 1968 the price to get into a race track was $2 and the pits was $3. Most everything has raised to 10 times as much except the purses at the tracks.