purses for lucas, WoO 2026

[ftfiowa]

Lucas is paying $1,416,000 to win for 2026
WoO is paying $1,263,000 to win for 2026

$153,000 difference,but if you lead every lap at the WoO PDC in fairbury thats an extra $50,000!

[ftfiowa]

lucas total purses is $4,927,000
WoO total purses is $4,898,000

[ftfiowa]

WoO points fund is unchanged & pays $225,000 to the champ. if lucas keeps the 2025 fund structure the champ gets $250,000,the top 15 get $1,265,000 total with an additional $66,000 in chase bonuses.

[ftfiowa]

wonder if pierce will chase the lucas tour for that winners purse money ever as it is more than WoO with less races.

[Moonran22]

wonder if pierce will chase the lucas tour for that winners purse money ever as it is more than WoO with less races.

The money is very good on both series and so close at those levels that I doubt the slight differences would be much of a deciding factor. I’d imagine travel, what tracks you prefer to run, what tracks you run well at, sponsor considerations, etc. will play a bigger factor in who runs what. Plus regardless of which series you run, you can still run several big money shows from the other series anyway.

[84wedge]

wonder if pierce will chase the lucas tour for that winners purse money ever as it is more than WoO with less races.

Why bother? The competition is lame in WoO so he's guaranteed more money just from that. Why bother trying to race Davenport, Moran, RTJ, Sheppard, O'Neal when he can just race Hoffman?

[blncfn57]

Why bother? The competition is lame in WoO so he's guaranteed more money just from that. Why bother trying to race Davenport, Moran, RTJ, Sheppard, O'Neal when he can just race Hoffman?

and why race for a gimmick championship when you can do it the traditional way.

[84wedge]

I was really hoping they got rid of that format but I guess they can't nit pick a sponsor these days.

[ftfiowa]

i think 49 davenport runs a limited schedule in 2026 so that could shake things up. maybe pierce thinks he can beat the 20rt,71,99 in 2026 as much as he beat the 9,19r,9m in 2025.

[Fast Wheels]

These huge payoffs have done nothing to help the sport. It just feeds the money to a few teams to the point that only a few teams are capable of winning now at these major event events.

these two series have helped destroy region regional and local super late model racing. They have allowed the cars to become completely out of control financially