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Recruit and Manage Volunteer Workforce

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Jimmy Means Shows Us His Historic NASCAR Race Shop! 40+ Years of Racing Under One Roof

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Successfully running a race team on a budget often involves attracting and retaining passionate, often unpaid, volunteer labor. In the early days, the owner relied on many volunteers who were simply eager to be part of the racing world. He strategically located his shop in a rural area, making it an attractive hub for local enthusiasts who had limited other opportunities in motorsports. This created a loyal workforce. Providing basic amenities, like a place to sleep and cover utilities, encouraged these volunteers to dedicate their time and effort. This unique approach to staffing allows the team to accomplish significant work without incurring prohibitive labor costs.

Goal: Leverage passionate volunteers to support race shop operations and reduce labor costs.

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floor but you know it's got epoxy pain and it stays a lot cleaner than just just complete floor yeah the GU just give it character yeah well it's got a lot of that during the season when you're in full swing how many guys are working in here usually well probably five you know right now you know I had to tell my crew chief uh Tim Brown that he been with me 14 years I said man you know way things are going you need to do what's best for you and that's find a job because I can't keep continue to pay in you what I've been paying you because I just I'm not making any money so unfortunately he had you know had to leave and uh so right now there's only we got two other guys and right now uh I'm 72 and a half and I got one guy 74 and the other guy 76 so that's what we got working on these race cars right now is that about the same amount of guys that you had back in you whenever you were still running when I first started you know the reason I moved to city was there's two guys uh that uh help helped Cecil Gordon and Cecil ran out of this town for a while and they told me said if you'll come to you know if you'll move to for City said we'll go to work for you and that was Mike Connor and David B David bid so that's what happened and then that's the only two guys that were on payroll back then but we were fortunate that we had a ton of people that wanted to work on these race cars and wanted to go to the racetrack and and help us and they weren't paid so back then and we're fortunate that people wanted to race like that but now everybody wants money yeah yeah I wondered how you ended up out here cuz you're you're a couple hours from moresville took me a while to get here I say and they found they they responsible to find in this building and it was cheap rent back then I think it was 325 a month so and also there's a guy here named stud Murray that was a a sponsor for me and uh I think uh he gave me $500 a Race So You Know I moved to

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