Bobby Hill
Nitro Member
Hello maters! I need to rant a little bit here. I was watching the eliminations on TV today, because we didn't qualify again, it has been since Denver 05 if anyone other than us is counting. And one of the consistent things I see from drivers in top end interviews is complaint about funding. Please guys and gals get over it! Go work hard, let your pr people and others try to help find funding for you to live your dream and be glad you won. Everyone in drag racing can use more money, there can never be enough, and we all know this. I work for Ben Watson, which most of you know, and we have a fairly small budget. We work well within this budget, but yes if we had a sponsor we could do more. But getting on TV and complaining about it only makes the racers seem like whiners rather than winners… People are spending a lot of money to get their families into the gates to watch something they love, and we are complaining about not having enough money to race on when we all drive nice cars, have nice homes and get paid to do something that obviously a whole lot of people would like to do. In the years since I started working in Nascar and NHRA I have never met a fan that said, “Dude your job must suck!” People aren’t tuning their televisions into the race to hear you complain that Schumacher, Force, WJ, Ken Black and Vance/Hines have unlimited budgets. I don’t know this for fact, but I’m guessing they DO have budgets and they still have constraints on money. Is it more than the rest of us are getting to play with, sure it is. But they win so the bounties of success go to them. Out work them, win and you will be rewarded. Sponsors go where the fans are, and the fans are where the winners are, and the winners are where the people busting their hump are. Sure it takes a lot of luck, but luck is a matter of preparation and timing.
Well I do feel a little better and I know there will be repercussions of this but I really feel it needs to be said.
My two cents…
Michael
Well I do feel a little better and I know there will be repercussions of this but I really feel it needs to be said.
My two cents…
Michael
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