Doug
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Originally posted by Scruffy
How much will Mt Melvin win for the UMP championship this year????????????????
Getting back to the original subject...
Last year, the UMP LM national champ won $100,000. So did the modified champ, if I'm not mistaken. However, that was the first time the payoff has been anywhere close to that size. In previous years, I believe the Late Model champ only received around $12,000. Not sure what the payout will be this year.
By comparison, Tom Seets won the NASCAR Heartland Region and will win somewhere in the neighborhood of $44,000 for 18 nights worth of racing. If he were to be lucky enough to win the national championship, his total haul would be somewhere around $170,000. The ShorTrack national champion (basically a class for sportsman and b-mod type cars) will get around $10,000, which is almost as much as the UMP Late Model champ had become used to getting. Makes ya say hmmmm......