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A couple weeks back, the great Kevin Swindell posted a tweet that read “The day we stop pretending the purse is where anybody in racing makes money it will be a good day” That statement drew plenty of comments. I found it very interesting. He laid out expenses vs profit if he won a 10k to win race. By his calculations he would barely break even. There’s plenty of ways to go on this, and I’m sure you, the esteemed members of IOW, will find different paths to debate this but 2 things jumped out at me. First this brings to reality the small team, weekly racers apparently are the ones who the purses are the most important. And secondly you better have sponsors or someone with a very fat wallet bankrolling you if you want to run big time wings. In that thread, I believe I saw McGhee say averaging the year it’s $6500 a night to race a top shelf car. I don’t know what you think but man that’s salty. I just want to thank all the sponsors and teams who keep us entertained spending that kinda dough. Ok Stevensville, you asked for something to chew on, there’s a bone. I just hope I don’t get slandered for bringing it up
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