I may have wrote that wrong.  My appoligies if it came out incorrectly.  
Let me try again.
There are classes were big money can be found. If anyone wants to go race for big cash, they will be doing so against elite drivers. There is nothing holding them back from doing so.  All that needs to happen is for them to take their desire, their money, and their skill, and go get some.   Sammy Swindell, Kyle Bush, Mark Bloomquist, Chris Shannon, Bobby Hogge, Paul Stone, Brad Pounds .... they stand ready to accept the challenge of anyone wanting to run for the money.  Go get some.  Any true racer would.

I hope that cleared up what I was trying to say.

Stepping up one's game is an expensive undertaking at times, in my opinion.

lol .. I was guessing with the Bloomer name. lol

Anyways ....

Big names travel all over the country side to chase big money in very expensive cars.  Sportmods aint that.  lol.  I'm going to bed.

Wait, I never said not to pay down the line ... I happen to think the paying down the line is the key to full fields .. and paying the top ten in track points something amazing will keep the regular attendance up all year.  But, the "to win" nonsense needs to be hushed up.  To win only matters to one car on the track.  But, in answer to your question about paying down the line, I do think the purse should slide back to at least the point where a guy that finished at the 50% mark breaks even (5th out of 10, 10 out of 20, 20 out of 40, ect.)  I think that is a pretty good guage.

Streeters ran for trophies, had one legers, 350cfm 2bbl, stock manifolds only, any DOT 8" .... we had B mains and C mains ... running for nothing but tin and grandstand donations ... 1989.   The demand for a purse came after spending went insane ... so the purse eased up a bit ... and the cars became track specific .. and here we are.

No, I do not think the Sportmod class is below, or above, any other local level racing class.  It's just different, in my opinion.  I think a guy putting a competitive 4banger on the track each week has just as much to do with racing as a guy putting a full tilit A-mod on the track.  Just different ... and less expense.  If a track has 40 4bangers and 8 A-mods, who do you think should make a bigger part of the purse?  I'm sure we agree.

So, have you ordered your IMCA license yet?

BAP, while agree with most of what you are saying, I think there is another factor involved with car count or lack of. I think one issue is the amount of classes. when a track has 7-8 classes you might get 80 cars in the pits but no more then 10 in any one class. When I was racing in the street stock in Antioch in the mid 80s, my first night was a "C" main, but we only had 2 classes I think. In cali we have 4-bangers, mini stocks,mini trucks, hobby stocks, american stocks,enduro, streeters (super stocks), A-mods, B mods, limited LMs, LMs, Micro sprint, mini sprint, midgets, midget lites, spec sprints, 360 winged, 410 winged, 410 non-winged and that is just for dirt! I think the sport mods are the wave of the future. But in order to improve car count, you have to control costs. I think IMCA is trying to do that.

I agree with you and Perry25.