Comments on: Start & Park: Bringin’ Up the Rear

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:09:59 +0000

I saw more power to them. It is a business after all and f you could spend 10k to make 20k every weekend, what do you think you would do ? Makes good business sense to me.

By: kyle

kyle — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:21:20 +0000

start and parks are absolutely hideous. whenever i see one of these jokers crash out and ruin their only car, i laugh histerically. i hope every week when i tune into a nationwide race i see one of these fundless retards hit the wall.

By: hazzard

hazzard — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:50:53 +0000

The idea that fans would be ticked if 43 cars weren’t starting is a stretch. I’d rather see 35 cars “racing” than a full field with 8 parkers. You can take a lot of cars out of a 43 car field to start a race without it looking cheap and amateur like F1 or IRL with it’s 11 car fields in the past.

By: rob

rob — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:29:59 +0000

i went to the 2009 birckyard 400 and saw 3 cars park come on nascar do somthing

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:08:03 +0000

Jay Robinson Racing starts & park only the #49 of Kertus Davis. they do that due to low funding, if they get a sponsor they will run entire race. The #4 car of Derrike Cope usally does entire race if they can get a a pit crew together by race time. Robinson’s team has talented drivers njust needs Sponsor to do entire race.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:26:05 +0000

PMM88 makes a very good point and for a low budget multi car team, its not a bad strategy.

Someone asked earlier about how much money a start and park pockets. I’ve heard estimates that the team pockets roughly 1/3 of the purse after expenses for a weekend. Some races pay a lot better, so that percentage would go up some at those tracks.

By: PMM88Jr

PMM88Jr — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:24:07 +0000

What about the #331 Kenny Hendrick? Stanton Barrett enters 2 cars to gather information to make the #30 better for the race. He doesn’t have a budget to perform any testing, so having a second car to try setups during the practices helps him for the race. Kenny Hendrick’s only job is to give Stanton more data to qualify and race better. If the #331 makes the race and parks, Stanton uses the money to help his car and crew. It must be cheaper to bring two cars to run through the practices, qualifying and start than it is to test during the week. Opinions?

By: JT

JT — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:24:21 +0000

When Morgan gets help from stars like Tony Stewart, he can still get up on the wheel. Besides, Morgan’s Racing For Jesus team is a good ministry.

By: vettes n frets

vettes n frets — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:00:29 +0000

I have no probelm with Start/Show money when running local tracks,if your car gets beat up in the heat at least if you repaired it enough to Start the feature and run 1 lap you got your entry fee back…been there done that.

Nascar should make the teams run at least to the first caution to get payout money.

By: Richard in N.C.

Richard in N.C. — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:30:57 +0000

I suspect that some of the so-called start-and-parkers, like Morgan Shepherd, might not be able financially to compete every week, but might be able to compete every 3rd or 4th week using the prize money from the weeks they made the field, but bowed out quickly.