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Just going by all the hype on the net. Even the announcer at Maple Grove started out the morning saying how this was going to be a great East vs West showdown. (obvisouly that didn't happen.) Just curious what was the payout at Fontana?



The only money up for grabs at Fontana was the Mopar purse. We have put on, for 2 years now, hemi shootout races at Mission with some good sized purses and couldn't get anyone to travel west. So, it's hard to go to the sponsors and ask for more. By the way, part of the purse at Maple Grove was put up by our team. I think we were the biggest contingency sponsor.

We were scheduled to be there. Like I said, and has been reported in numerous places on the net, we had engine damage and my Dad got very sick. Just didn't work out this time. It will really hurt us come Indy entry time next year as this race was in our planned 5 grade point events. Looks like we'll end the year with 4.