Yep too costly for the returns
unless you're one of the super teams,
even they aren't growing, they're struggling,
expensive drivers $300k is for a competitive name driver alone,
extremely expensive cars, chassis & part
hell the electronic shocks are well over $10k now
a chassis is easily $75k for a no name, $150k for a decent roller
$350k + Bickel or Haas etc. car for a anywhere near complete
& actually competitive car with engine & drivetrain, engine program etc.
A single car team self funded is extremely rare to ever compete/competitively
The damn field size dwindling &/or can hardly field a full field
in many events now, 14 cars in many events, that sucks
They should make an Open/Pro - "Stock Eliminator"
American Made "2 dr" stock body & style of engines etc.
Challengers/Demons, Corvettes, Mustangs, Camaros, class as a Pro Class,
give some leeway on the mandatory min & max. wheelbase
so more cars can compete as long as they are stock wheel base
{unfortunately that'd take the Chargers out of it unless they made a 2dr version}
IMO the sanctioning bodies {especially NHRA} all should
promote Pro-mod as a premiere headliners Pro-class,
eliminate P/S as we have it today
Or increase the P/S purses & tow money to
reflect the expenditures, costs etc.
So independent teams can compete,
not just super Pro-Camaro teams we have today, YAWN !!
the $2+ million sponsorships needed to campaign a
real P/S competitively today, especially when the
TV exposure sucks ***, compared to the last ESPN 2, FOX-SP1,
they barely even show P/S anymore, ESPN sucked *** too,
but was far better than FS1 is today
If I was a sponsor I'd choose to put my $$$ elsewhere,
to get the best bang for the buck...
I'd much rather see Super Stock or Pro-Mod anyway
I was an ol' die hard door-slammer classes & P/S guy too
Hell I'd like to see Fuel Altered far more than the Pro-Camaro class...