Some people have their own reasons for spending their children's inheritance to do something. And it may not including asking for or receiving any help from anyone.
Like Arley, I like to do it my own way with our stuff even though there are those out there that offer competitive tune-ups in our class. My reason for being there is to learn, go fast and win based on what we've learned over the years and to try the things we dream up to try on the car just to see what happens. That's what floats my boat. When it runs well, we did it as a team. When we suck, we did it as a team. And we've done both. But for sure no one will ever be able to say "If it wasn't for so-and-so they would do any good at all."
The guy in the pits next to us at any given race may chose to pay someone $3,000, $5,000 or more for the weekend to fly in and tune up their race car. If that's what it takes for us to win then I have no reason to race my car or be in the pits. I'm there to see how well we can do against everyone else, not hire someone to see how good we are. No fun, to me.
Like I said, sometimes we suck and sometimes we don't. I'm a little hard headed, I guess. Given the choice of running good because someone else stepped in my pit and did it verses learning and growing and finally running decent because we did it I'll take option 2. If you talked to Arley I bet he would say the same thing.
RG