"Pinks" results
Orangedust it's about face time. They, Pinks, ask you for a list of names so you can enter the pit area and we all know how many friends we have all of a sudden that want to partake in "helping".
572 is correct, you win the other car and there is NO payout to the loser for the cost of his ride! I talked with Rich the host of the show personally and at length about this. He said its not about one guy risking his car putting it on the line and all that money he has in it in a gamble. Its more designed for people to get a few guys together and throw something together and put it up. Obviously, only someone with lots of coin could just go it alone and say what the hell but thats there gamble if they want to. My buddy raced on Pinks and they filmed him at Atco NJ in October. I went and watched the finish line to mark lengths off for negotiations. He had a fox body mustang 6 cyl behind his garage so we all threw some parts we had at it, stock 302, high flow carb, roll cage, pumped it full of NOS, and slapped a paint job on it. He won a camaro and sold it back to the owner after air time because he used the loot to pay everyone off for there contribution and then bought dinner and drinks for us. If we had lost then we were out individually and that was our gamble. It was fun, honestly it was and for any racer it gives you a litte braggin rights with your buddies until they blow your doors off the next weekend. It was great publicity and exposure for his newly opened performance shop and thats what he really wanted! Episode airs Feb 22. He already sold the mustang he used to win too, lol. He has a 69 Camaro Pro street that he runs and has had as his baby for years. There ain't no way in hell he would put that up but he would have definetely had faster times. I'd like to see some peeps get together and do up a mopar and run that on the show.