Two short years ago, we were racing for nothing more than a plaque for the winner. No money, no year-end cash...and for the winner only...nothing for runner-up. Imagine taking your car 1200 miles to Spring Break Shootout for that! Last year (1999), Lee Cooper stepped up with $200/$100 and the season champion got $1000. At each event there was also the possibility of the winner getting a stroker motor kit or a set of custom pistons in a drawing held among all the class winners. I won a set of custom Probe pistons after winning the Montgomery event. In 2000, the money was raised to $400/$100/$50 plus all the fantastic contingency monies for the various products. The year-end payouts also went down to four places with $4000/$2500/$1500/$1000 which really helped push people to make more events.
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Jeff Chambers
T/S #3
11.97 Seconds/114.5 MPH
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