William Robb wrote:
I suspect there is a lot more money flowing through the hands of motorsports people. They have access to fairly major sponsors once they get past the club racing level, and races do attract paying spectators. Auto racing strikes me as a sport for the wealthy, every dog breeder that I know is what one of the more successful breeders I know calls "dog poor".
Amateur auto racing is very much a sport for the better off than average, but there are a lot of us at the club racing (SCCA and NASA) level that are "shoestring operations". That said, there's a tremendous amount of money in any given amateur motor racing paddock, especially in sports car and vintage racing. Most of these people have day jobs, but they're often corporate bigwigs, doctor/lawyer-type professionals, etc. However, you have to be, or do a lot of your own work, because sponsor money doesn't enter into the equation in any meaningful way until you're nearly at the top of the sport, and even then a lot of drivers have to bring cash with them to get rides.
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