How Many Years Would You Continue To Race On A Shoestring If You Never Won A Race?

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Here it is guys.This question sprang to my mind because of a Columbus Ohio guy named Burgess White who won his first late model feature race in August of 2012 after making his first start in 1966.Burgess was interviewed on track last Saturday prior to the start of the Jim Nuckles memorial talking about his first and (so far) only feature win.Burgess still tows his racecar on an open trailer behind an older model pick-up truck but is still racing every Saturday at CMS.

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[QUOTE=zerofor;149235]Here it is guys.This question sprang to my mind because of a Columbus Ohio guy named Burgess White who won his first late model feature race in August of 2012 after making his first start in 1966.Burgess was interviewed on track last Saturday prior to the start of the Jim Nuckles memorial talking about his first and (so far) only feature win. Burgess still tows his race car on an open trailer behind an older model pick-up truck but is still racing every Saturday at CMS.[/QUOTE]Sounds just like my dad and my brother who were racing Super Late Models at Orlando until they dropped the class. They made a trip or two to St. Pete and Auburndale, but, the car’s been sitting since about 2012.

Dad’s the owner/crew chief and my brother is the driver, and has been since about…2002 at least.

Now, from 1974 til about…1998, maybe<?>, my dad was hooked up with Bob Kirk out of the Palm Beach area. They won races at Hialeah, Palm Beach, St. Pete, Tampa (Golden Gate), Inverness, DeSoto, Auburndale, and the Lakeland 1/4 mile. We’ve had guys like Billy Gill, Don Denney, Paul Conners, Scarborough, Childers, Moyer, Warren, Wayne Reutimann, and countless others who’ve sat behind the wheel at least once - and every one of 'em’s won at least one feature with my dad as crew chief.

Nowadays, though…sigh…I wish they’d build a Sportsman car and go racin’ again… :slight_smile:

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Still doing it on a shoestring.

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I always ran junk but would have quit after a few months If I knew I didn’t have a chance to win. And I did. After 20 years. As rules changed and equipment got better, I found I couldn’t compete unless I put my “racing money” ahead of my “family money”. Could never do that. That’s why I now have a partner to share costs with and only race 3 or 4 times a year.