Payoffs

[rmac]

Matt for mod mini and sportsman that we race you can buy your tires and fuel where ever you want as long as the tires are the approved tires. If you open it up to any tire you would be racing against $2000 apiece tires from f1. Can you afford that?

[Matt Albee]

Matt for mod mini and sportsman that we race you can buy your tires and fuel where ever you want as long as the tires are the approved tires. If you open it up to any tire you would be racing against $2000 apiece tires from f1. Can you afford that?

F1 tires would be a disaster on a short track stock car, this season they aren't even worth a damn on an F1 car, and they're nowhere near $2000 apiece. But I get your point.
Here's my point. Short track racing has suffered for years on the assumption that spec tires, spec engines, spec cars are going to save our sport. They haven't. At all. Short track racing on the local level is at an all time low. There's plenty of blame to go around, but tracks and manufacturers trying to make their money by forcing people to use their products has had a giant effect on the well being of racing.
Tires are no different than engines, bodies, shocks, or even drivers. There's always going to be one that's better than the others. So what! If one tire is better, everyone will want to use that tire. And the other tire companies will build something better. Set a size and width limit, along with a hardness limit, and go racing. Take-offs or new, any brand, purchased anywhere. That's what will save the racers money. Also allow new sponsors like American Racer to bring money into the sport.
It will also allow competition between manufacturers, thereby bringing better and less expensive products to the racers. What's going to force Hoosier to make a better or longer lasting tire when they have no competition and everyone is forced to use whatever they send to the track.

[ss14]

1977 Modified payout

I started racing in 1977 and the modified 30 lap feature paid $1,200 to win, then $900, $800 and a real nice payout all the way back. 36 years later...we have lost $950 from 1st place and the rest is just a joke.
With inflation, a modified feature should be about $4,000!
Can we just go back in time????

[Buckwheat]

looking at names in that feature are those the imca kind of mods or the tour kind? sure looks like mod tour names. mod tour has always paid more than a imca mod weekly feature. hell i think purse for thompson icebreaker last year was $130,000. just for mod tour.

[Don Nerone]

I started racing in 1977 and the modified 30 lap feature paid $1,200 to win, then $900, $800 and a real nice payout all the way back. 36 years later...we have lost $950 from 1st place and the rest is just a joke.
With inflation, a modified feature should be about $4,000!
Can we just go back in time????

The xlass of mods in florida were IMCA cars. IMCA stated in those days that we should never pay them more than $350 to win. If we wouls keep the to win money down and the cheep clam rule the class would allwase be a hoby car...That cat got out of this bag a long time ago thanks to 2 local tracks trying to steel outher tracks cars. The purse went to $1000 to win and no clame rule. Dick Anderson had one built in a few weeks. The rest is history\
We should have listend to IMCA.

Don62

[8modified]

The xlass of mods in florida were IMCA cars. IMCA stated in those days that we should never pay them more than $350 to win. If we wouls keep the to win money down and the cheep clam rule the class would allwase be a hoby car...That cat got out of this bag a long time ago thanks to 2 local tracks trying to steel outher tracks cars. The purse went to $1000 to win and no clame rule. Dick Anderson had one built in a few weeks. The rest is history\
We should have listend to IMCA.

Don62

Don the payout at Orlando if there were 15 cars totals 1300.00 that is a joke, they get 5 or 6 cars. Why would anyone drive more that 30 minutes, and not win the race for that payout.
I just checked IMCA purse and it starts at 3150.00 and they pay 100.00 to start, with some tracks at 700.00 to win and 200.00 to start.

[ss14]

Payout

The names of those old drivers from 1977 were NOT in a fancy tour race. That was the every Saturday night race at Freeport Speedway in Long Island NY. They raced old coupe bodies, Vega bodies, etc. At that time is was the oldest racetrack in the USA and she had an amazing history of great drivers.
Anyway, the point is, that was 1977 and that was the regular weekly payout for a 30 lap Modified feature race.
It went from $1,200 in 1977 down to $250 at Speedworld today. It's just a damn shame.

[UREZ2PASS]

Freeport Speedway today, guess those payouts did not keep it alive.