The debate about who is more important is not the intention of this thread. Thanks to all who have provided so much useful information. The amount of time, money, and logistics involved in a single race weekend is amazing. Regardless of how we got to where we are today we must face the fact that all the costs associated with racing are getting way out of hand. There is a lot of competition for peoples time and money (workers included) and we must find ways to give our customer (the racer) more for the money. That cost from National are way out of line is a given. I don't even want to get into the insurance debate here. I appreciate the PM's with some great info and suggestions. Please save the worker discussions for another thread.