The First World 100 Purse

[Buford.Justice]

[Buford.Justice]

$4K to win, 600.00 for third, and $25.00 for sixteenth through 20th.!!!!

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

That was big money.

[lazermod3]

That was big money.

Bill Redwine,the promoter of Tri-county speedway in west chester ohio told the duke,(Earl Baltes),that he had lost his mind,To pay out that kind of money.

[NeedforLMspeed]

That was big money.

I watched part of the 1999 North/South last night on youtube that Pierce won. $15k was alot of money then also. I don't know what Bob was more excited about. Winning the $15k or just winning at Florence period.

[NeedforLMspeed]

The purse was also listed on the DoD history page but not as in depth as this.

[3 wide]

Notice the time Sunday afternoon it didn't get real popular till they but up lights an started running on Saturday night not sure what year that was.

[racedad11]

They switched to night time racing in 1986. But I beg to differ on the popularity starting then. The late 70`s early 80`s there were always a lot of cars and people.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

They switched to night time racing in 1986. But I beg to differ on the popularity starting then. The late 70`s early 80`s there were always a lot of cars and people.

Yes. It was a huge event long before 86.

[chubfrankfan]

$4000 in 1971 would be worth about $26,000 today.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

$4000 in 1971 would be worth about $26,000 today.

The actual size of the purse is even bigger than that, as there were very few big paying late model events.

[Clamped]

I remember one of the announcers at Eldora talking about the first World 100. At the time, many thought it might have been a misprint, or that the total purse was $4,000. In 1971, a 4K to win race was unimaginable.

[NeedforLMspeed]

The first Hillbilly in 1967 paid $2k

[3 wide]

In 1978 Robert Smalley started the NDRA paying 10,000 to win the first touring late models.

[84wedge]

How many cars turned out then compared to now?

[JimBo]

And the first 4 places in the heats and dash paid $$.

[NeedforLMspeed]

How many cars turned out then compared to now?

68 cars in 1971 fast time was 20.20. In 2019 there was 98. Fast time was 15.269

[Rajflyboy]

Nice find 👍

[NeedforLMspeed]

Nice find 

Not hard to find. It's all right here.

https://www.dirtondirt.com/history-major.php?id=8

[B_K]

Paid $9000 in 1976 and the guy that won it in 76 won a heat in 1977 but was a DNS for the feature.

Hughes blew up coming to the checkers in the heat.

Kenimer and Snooks went 1-2 in that feature. Could have had a NGA podium that year, but alas it was not meant to be.