Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!

[M T Pockets]

THIS IS CRAZY!!!!!!! :mad: :Riverhead- Two 25 lap heat races and 140 lap feature.

Get This!! $2600 to win, $975 for 10th and the bonus cut to $200.:disgusted

I think we reached True Value purses. By next year the Stafford SK feature will be the highest paying race around.

56% of the people say we were the most exciting race and now we lower our selves to these "Sub-Standard Purse" races. We are racing the Tour into extinction.:(

[ThE sHaDoW]

THIS IS CRAZY!!!!!!! :mad: :Riverhead- Two 25 lap heat races and 140 lap feature.

Get This!! $2600 to win, $975 for 10th and the bonus cut to $200.:disgusted

I think we reached True Value purses. By next year the Stafford SK feature will be the highest paying race around.

56% of the people say we were the most exciting race and now we lower our selves to these "Sub-Standard Purse" races. We are racing the Tour into extinction.:(

the 100 lapper at Waterford this past Sat paid $2500 to win and they used time trials to set the field. 30 miles of racing, counting yellows

Riverhead will be 41.25 miles, I guess that's why they're paying and extra hundred to win?

[ThE sHaDoW]

here's some more number to chew on:

100 LAPS (62.50 MILES) and Qualifying………………..………......… $113,595 POSTED AWARDS-Thompson
(Including $3,618 NASCAR Camping World Series East Championship point fund money.)

1st - $6,000
2nd - $3,665
3rd - $2,700
4th - $2,500
5th - $2,000
6th - $1,450
7th - $1,100
8th - $1,050
9th - $1,020
10th - $1,000
30th - $900

*75 LAPS (46.87 MILES) and Qualifying …………….…………………..$75,165 POSTED AWARDS-Thompson
(Including $3,382 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Championship point fund money.)
*75 Green Flag Laps. Yellow Flag Laps Will Not Be Scored.

1st - $4,000
2nd - $2,300
3rd - $1,800
4th - $1,500
5th - $1,300
6th - $1,100
7th - $1,000
8th - $975
9th - $925
10th - $900
35th - $700

190 LAPS (Including Two 25 Lap Qualifying Races and 140 Lap Main)......$60,165 POSTED AWARDS-Riverhead
(Including $2,273 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Championship point fund money.)

1st - $2,600
2nd - $1,900
3rd - $1,600
4th - $1,400
5th - $1,300
6th - $1,200
7th - $1,050
8th - $1,000
9th - $975
10th - $950
28th - $300

150 LAPS (Including Two 25 Lap Qualifying Races and 100 Lap Main)......$63,165 POSTED AWARDS-Spencer
(Including $2,545 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Championship point fund money.)

1st - $3,000
2nd - $2,000
3rd - $1,700
4th - $1,450
5th - $1,350
6th - $1,250
7th - $1,150
8th - $1,100
9th - $1,050
10th - $1,000
32nd - $300

[Sicklajoie]

Could be worse.
You could be runnin a 20 lap SK Light race for $300 to win.
Plus $50 from Bosch and 5 gallons of Sunoco.
What's the sound of one hand clapping?? :applause:

[ThE sHaDoW]

Could be worse.
You could be runnin a 20 lap SK Light race for $300 to win.
Plus $50 from Bosch and 5 gallons of Sunoco.
What's the sound of one hand clapping?? :applause:

not hardly apples and apples now are they? SK light motor, what 5 k? tour motor, say about 50 k? SK light travel no more than an hour to the track. tour travel, most places 1 hour plus?

[WMT10]

Shadow,
Alot of people agree with you but what are we going to do about it?
Its time for some of these car owners to stick together!!

[ThE sHaDoW]

Shadow,
Alot of people agree with you but what are we going to do about it?
Its time for some of these car owners to stick together!!

the one and only time I saw them stick together was at Waterford when they were told the Seekonk back gate was not going to be $25. that was a proud moment in tour history. I wish I had an answer, I wish I knew how to get all the teams to pull together and say "enough!". let me think about it for a few days, maybe I can bring something to Spencer to hand out. anyone with ideas, PM me. Good, Bad, Ugly, send the ideas.

[hollywoodmic]

You can't blame Riverhead. They were done with the tour races and the tour came to them with this proposal for the purse. They didn't say "this is what I'm going to pay". Since 1985 Riverhead had hosted a minimum of 2 tour races every year until last year. They were one of the last "small track" promoters to stick with the tour. Remember, Lee, Monadnok, Richmond, Star, Wall, South Boston, Nazareth, Jennerstown, Watkins Glen, and many others kicked our series to the curb long before Riverhead did. So they supported this series as long as they could,perhaps some of the drivers and car owners should do the same.
Here's an idea perhaps NASCAR with all of their billions may want to kick in to "NASCAR's oldest division" I've said it here a thousand times, NASCAR couldn't kick in a million for this series?? They put in 40,000 for every purse and the promoter has to at least match it?? A lot of great people have grown up in this series, and moved on to all forms of NASCAR. It's a shame NASCAR is going to allow it to die a slow death.

[Bullfrog]

In my 30 plus years of racing...I've never seen anybody doing this for the money. Whether we are paying outragous prices at the gate while racing for peanuts, racers still show up to race. Thats the way its always been. I'm not saying its right, but this is why we will never see any change. Because owners and drivers will still come to the track to race. Until maybe they just run completely out of money and car counts drop considerably. I remember getting all worked up about this subject in the 80's and 90's because the pit fee climbs 60%, but the purses stay the same as they did from the 60's and 70's. My 2 cents.

BF