I noticed on one of the sites I lurk and stalk around (Dale Jr. Pit Board, link to the right.) on that a post had been made about Jeff Gordon taking a cut in next years pay to help out financially. Personally I think that is a very generous offer especially since he probably has at least 50 times that much in the bank between himself and his better half. With absolutely no sarcasm with this statement, I think that if the "higher" paying drivers and owners wish to give up pay for next year would be awesome. Only problem I find with it is, who gets the money??? The rich rich rich team owners or what???
I came up with an idea that would help ALL people's cause, which is to race, right??? I think that the drivers/teams/owners that are willing to do this, should put ALL that saved wages into a slush fund for ALL the other underfunded teams that need help just to stay a float in these hard economic times. This way the loss of jobs could be stopped if not temporarily, but possibly permanently if the economy starts an upswing. Saving jobs, learning to budget better, and even showing another example of what the NASCAR community truly is...a TEAM.
I don't think that this would be practical to do every year by donating salaries, but I do think that if some of "money making" teams helped the "little guy" NASCAR may revive some of us old school fans that liked racing when it was about chasing after the rag. Not so much for image and the almighty dollar. As a fan, NASCAR racing used to be fun and affordable. Now you have to plan financially a year ahead to go if you even want to have a good time. A friggen beer costs 8 bucks!!! Hopefully NASCAR and the "others" can help bring back racing to the little teams and the fans, until then start saving. It's gonna be a long season next year.
I came up with an idea that would help ALL people's cause, which is to race, right??? I think that the drivers/teams/owners that are willing to do this, should put ALL that saved wages into a slush fund for ALL the other underfunded teams that need help just to stay a float in these hard economic times. This way the loss of jobs could be stopped if not temporarily, but possibly permanently if the economy starts an upswing. Saving jobs, learning to budget better, and even showing another example of what the NASCAR community truly is...a TEAM.
I don't think that this would be practical to do every year by donating salaries, but I do think that if some of "money making" teams helped the "little guy" NASCAR may revive some of us old school fans that liked racing when it was about chasing after the rag. Not so much for image and the almighty dollar. As a fan, NASCAR racing used to be fun and affordable. Now you have to plan financially a year ahead to go if you even want to have a good time. A friggen beer costs 8 bucks!!! Hopefully NASCAR and the "others" can help bring back racing to the little teams and the fans, until then start saving. It's gonna be a long season next year.
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