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Originally Posted by Tim Northcutt
TEAM Money replaced paying out purses so that the smaller teams would get a more consistent cut for racing.
Little fish got about $30,000 for racing in the back under the old system.
Now they get an average of about $65,000 a race, not including the 500.
A typical winner's purse was somewhere between $110,000 and $150,000 per race (excluding Indy) prior to TEAM, so just with their wins, not to mention higher placed finishes, how much more do you think they would have gotten than their $1.2 million as part of TEAM?
I say if the IRL is intersted, they should commission a design and put some money where there mouth is...
Why should Ganassi do it for free if there is no commitment to interest via cash from the IRL in the potential chassis design?
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Like the old champcar and CART programs all the TEAM program does is reward mediocrity.
It might be going bye bye anyways:
http://www.ibj.com/the-score/2009/11...AMS/post/11252
Sounds like Belskus is a hatchet man getting the company lean and mean ready for sale.