Re: Where did you get that he is driving for free...
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Posted by nydeifan
on March 27, 2008 at 10:15:31:
In Reply to: Re: Where did you get that he is driving for free... posted by jericho on March 27, 2008 at 10:11:33:
The next check Busch gets from the truck team will be his first; he drives the No. 51 for free. That's partially out of loyalty to Ballew and Wauters -- a friend who gave Busch a late-model Snowball Derby ride when he was 16 -- and partially because, well, there's no other way to do it.
"His pay scale is very low, as in basically none. Hopefully one day when we get a corporate sponsorship I can be able to repay that," said Ballew, 48, an automobile wholesaler in Georgia. "We've never been fortunate enough to have the financing to be able to pay a lot of salaries for drivers -- we're just fortunate enough to have someone like him who is part of our family and loves to race