I'm so sick of this fan base using the word gimmick! It was a race all races are races stop it. I will miss it.
It makes it a gimmick when you cover a pavement track with dirt then take a car designed to run on pavement tracks to run on dirt.
It makes it a dirt race. lol. I bet the complainers were confused with the Daytona beach races. Beach, road, beach, road both sides screaming GIMMICK!
If you don't like the word gimmick, how about a waste of a good pavement short track? I feel the same way about this as I do about street courses, rovals and stadium races. If you are going to race a certain discipline, seek out the BEST examples of that discipline, don't used half assed cobbled together crap versions of them.
Not at bristol.
I'd be ok with one race. The increase in demand would be huge and allow the series to visit a different track.
If Bristol loses a race, it will be to another SMI track. Atlanta, Vegas, and Charlotte already have two. Texas just lost a date. That leaves Sonoma and the leased COTA (I don't see another road course race being added), Wilkesboro, leased Nashville Speedway, and (OMG) Kentucky.
That's wonderful, If I had to choose Bristol Dirt or one race Bristol, I'll choose Bristol dirt every time.
To each his own. My opinion is Bristol has only had one race for the last three years anyway, so I wouldn't notice a difference.
The owners and workers would notice. A 150,000 seat venue is a whole lot of overhead for one race. That is the elephant in the room.
Didn't seem to be a concern for Texas, a track with the same owner. The Indy attendance isn't even that of an Xfinity race.
So it goes from Keep Bristol pavement to get rid of one race and go football...Lol that's rich
Texas is in a very large urban area. They have the advantage of being able to hold events almost all year long and they do. Bristol doesn't have that luxury to be close to that many people for extra revenue.
Is there a source for the word going around with legs?
Including the last three years? So bringing in the dirt didn't make any difference, it dropped anyway?
Several media people said this was the 1st dirt race they didn't try to sell fans tickets for next years events
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Yeah right, quit with the word game B.S. and your selective memory.
I forgot to add Darlington. Id actually like to keep 2 races there just because of how great the racing is there.The none Crown Jewel races at Bristol, Charlotte and Daytona do nothing for me as a fan. If anything they slightly take away from the mystic of the Crown Jewel races. I would be perfectly fine with them replacing these 3 races with races at other tracks.
Replace Charlotte Roval with Road America, Bristol Dirt with Eldora or another dirt track and Daytona with another oval. Indy oval and Roval does nothing for me in general and I personally don’t consider it a crown jewel or care if they race there at all. Just my thoughts
I heard it was somewhere around $2 million. Fox's TV money was basically covering most of that since they were the ones that wanted it.
That’s certainly an indicator of something. Perhaps they’re considering a date change to get away from the Easter weekend. I have no idea.
I have 300 wives and 700 concubines. Really cuts into my posting time.
What came into NASCAR around that time?
The ratings and attendance haven't shown that for years. I would wager the spring race if standing on it's own without TV money would already have been closed by now. Both dirt races have been an improvement. They deal with the weather better. Are they making money? That's hard to tell.
