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Originally Posted by pitviper
Bob... EXACTLY. Having been apart of privateer GT1 efforts in the ALMS off and on for 6 years now, I can tell you that the prize money certainly does have it's affect on draw for participants. It's one of the issues that could potentially be alleviated with the right "title sponsor". get a large company to put up a million dollar purse and your numbers will go up. The reality is that teams need to be able to race toward monetary goals as well as just the "winning" being "reward enough"...
pit
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While any addition funds are great, exactly how much money would be required to make a "real" difference?
Even at 10 races, divided by 20 teams... an (additional $2 mil) purse fund is only going to average out to about $10,000 per race... Normally this gets divided up with the top privateers garnering more of the money (and usually they are the ones who need it least). So, for how many teams is a figure in the neighbourhood of $50,000 to $75,000 going to make or break the year?
The prize fund would really need to be quite massive to make a real difference.