Prudhomme Annouces Retirement (1 Viewer)
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Check out the little caption on that magazine.....
I remember seeing a pic of the Snakes first pass in 1990. The car was straight up in the air right in the lights, body panels coming off, and the nose of the car seemed so much higher then the scoreboard next to it. Broke the front wing about 1100 feet and that was it. Snake crashed 3 times that year.
Oddly enough, Larry Dixon in crashed in preseason testing on one of his first passes at the same track just 5 years later.
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Hey Tim, haven't posted in a few days. Just wanted to say, I agree, it's not the cost of the CARS, per se, I meant to say the cost to RUN these cars. There are many people who have all the infrastructure (cars, tools, truck, etc.) or would be willing to invest to start from scratch, but it's the money it takes to run each season that's parking teams and preventing new ones from coming in. It's funny, I watched the NHRA classic show on TV yesterday, it was I believe the '82 Springnationals. And Jeb Allen, Lucille Lee and others were going through motors like they were free. 28 years ago. As you outlined, in addition to higher costs for all the equipment, probably the biggest jump has been in what it costs in personnel to operate a team. That and traveling costs, which have skyrocketed for everyone, doesn't matter what category you race.
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