keep things fair, but there needs to be a larger
safety aspect of it. Turbo cars are fixing to be in
the 3.70s, and running at 3,100 pounds; well, it
just doesn’t get any ‘unsafer’ than that,” he asserts.
“I look at driver safety. I don’t listen to the ones
complaining about who’s getting ahead.”
The incentive to run quicker and faster isn’t
purely based solely on pride and bragging rights,
either. There’s big money at stake. “Based on what
these guys used to get paid for the amount of
effort they put in, it was obscene. With 100 cars
in a drag radial field and paying out $2,500 to
win with a $200 tech card, well, there’s something
significantly wrong with that,” Sears points out.
Promoters such as Long are now offering huge
cash payouts upwards of $60,000 to the winner
of Radial vs the World and similar classes. He
remains concerned, however, that Radial vs the
World could eve