Dumb question for the day

[wilbur]

I wonder how well Matt Smith did. How many signatures, how many washingtons.

 

[Huge]

Even if you sell stock, sell space to sign, it's not gonna be anywhere close to what the team need unless each one was like a grand and if it was normal people would not be signing. 10 bucks a signature what's the overall take 1000 bucks if your lucky? that's nothing.

You can buy 1-barrel of nitro with $1,000.00.

 

[MM]

You can buy 1-barrel of nitro with $1,000.00.

Or a couple of rental cars for the weekend, weekend supply of spark plugs, weekend supply of oil, etc.

 

[Huge]

Or a couple of rental cars for the weekend, weekend supply of spark plugs, weekend supply of oil, etc.

Right on Mike.

 

[Nunz]

While the parts, pieces and nitro cost a bunch, one of the biggest budget concerns for a fuel team is personnel. I'm not talking about the guys trying to make it with weekend volunteers. But the tour regulars who have 6-8 guys on the payroll, not to mention the cost of a crewchief.

 

[Kansas Stan]

Luigi Novelli did this as well. Don't know if that's the way they are running now or not though.

 

[mike]

You can buy 1-barrel of nitro with $1,000.00.

'Not bad' , costs around $2,500 for 1 - barrel of nitro down under.

 

[NitroRichFire]

So teams are getting about 3 trips down the 1/4 mile, out of a drum of nitro?

 

[BaldyLochs]

And you know those nitro warmups we all know and love? Factor in a day's worth of those wicked throttle hits in, and your 55-gallon drum is already partly depleted, before you ever go down the track. That's what we should do with this thread, start off with X amount of cash, then think about all the things that make it dwindle .....

 

[MM]

And you know those nitro warmups we all know and love? Factor in a day's worth of those wicked throttle hits in, and your 55-gallon drum is already partly depleted

Drums from VP are only 42 gallons now.

 

[d'kid]

Drums from VP are only 42 gallons now.

Three passes per 400 pound drum... not counting warm up... feds are still tracking by weight and not volume, correct?

 

[clwill]

Reminds me of the cereal box. When you open it and there's about 1/2 what you think there should be there's a little note that says "this package measured by weight, not by volume".

 

[MM]

Three passes per 400 pound drum... not counting warm up... feds are still tracking by weight and not volume, correct?

Yes, and the drums come pre-mixed to 90%.

 

[Junior]

We did our sign the race car deal at the last two years worth of IHRA Racing. It was very popular, we did it just to give the fans a neat experience. It was cool to see what some of them wrote. We want to continue doing it but will have to do it at another venue.
Vinny Arcadi (Rest In Peace Buddy) did it in St.Louis in 2000. Vinny had an all white camaro, and charged $10. At the end of the weekend he donated the money to DRAW.
Bobby Lagana Jr.

 

[Rat]

We did our sign the race car deal at the last two years worth of IHRA Racing. It was very popular, we did it just to give the fans a neat experience. It was cool to see what some of them wrote. We want to continue doing it but will have to do it at another venue.
Vinny Arcadi (Rest In Peace Buddy) did it in St.Louis in 2000. Vinny had an all white camaro, and charged $10. At the end of the weekend he donated the money to DRAW.
Bobby Lagana Jr.

Arcadi passed? was it ever news? The team did look like they were on the brink to making things happen when they ran. I Signing the car must bring in more money than I considered. I guess when you have an operation all ready, making it race by race is probably much easier to organize than having the "i'm running all the races and I need to find money" attitude. Good deal