There are several events that no longer exist, and payouts were almost nothing. The jump start of XTSM by Steve Kessler inspired me to try and do the same for THS. Contacting sponsors and generating funds to spark interest of fellow racers has turned out the biggest payouts ever in THS. I did this on my own because there was a lack of anything happening to draw new racers in.
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This offends me and I would think it would offend some of our early sponsor. "Almost nothing" did you not win your choice of K1 rods? Did you not win tubular control arms? I guess to you this is nothing or have you forgot about that stuff. Other have been happy, I know Ernie was after the his win at the MWBC becasue I was with him on the ride home, just to give you one example. You say you went searching for sponsors all on your own but in 2014 I asked for people to kick in and help, the post is still up. You talk about the Biggest Payout but you need to remember I was raising sponsorship for 5-6 races a year for years. Put that together and see what you get. You have done a very good job on finding sponsors, I give you credit where credit is due. Then again you have won more than any other THS so maybe it is a little self serving.