For Ms. Sullivan, that means working weekdays as a bookkeeper, some weekends as a cashier, and three evenings a week as a barmaid to pay for racing a 2001 Monte Carlo, powered by a 350-cubic-inch engine, in Nascar's Late Models division.
Federal law prohibits candidates from using money that they raised for their general election to pay for primary race expenses.
Ecclestone agreed, and Walker set up a company, now called Australian Grand Prix Corp., to pay for the race with taxpayers' money.
In the nineties, when the estate's owner, Ron Burkle, was making a fortune in the supermarket business, he raised money from venders to pay for Indy race cars emblazoned with "Food4Less" or "Ralphs".
The accusation that he stole from the Brooklyn courts to help pay for his race to become the borough's top law enforcement officer was particularly striking, prosecutors said.
To pay for the races, the fuel, the fuel for the camper, the tyres, the motocross bikes, the training bikes.
Now, 45 years after its grand prix debut, it is making road cars, too – something Ferrari has done from its earliest days, when touring and sports models were sold to playboys and princes in order to pay for the racing.
Mr Ecclestone, here with Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone, then suggested the teams allow him to take responsibility for negotiating the television rights for the sport, successfully persuading television companies to buy F1 as a package, rather than pay for individual races.
In his position as the man who could exploit F1's commercial rights, Ecclestone persuaded television companies to buy F1 as a package, rather than pay for individual races.
The Br'er Rabbit approach succeeded: Mr. Akin cruised to victory, winning 36 percent of the vote and assuring that Ms. McCaskill, while still the most endangered Senate Democrat in the country, will not have to face John Brunner, a businessman whom Republicans preferred in no small part because he would have paid for the race himself.
