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racerx11
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According to Speedway Illustrated, this will be yhe last year you will have a chance to watch the Dash Series. That is too bad, it was almost affordable for an average person to run if he or she had a sponsor.
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MikeSfromVA
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Unless the DASH can organize with another sanctioning body. Local small tracks, the DASH's traditional bread and butter, can not pay out the purses that the NASCAR touring divisions ask.
Two years ago I went to a DASH race at Orange Co. Speedway in NC, good track, great Dash racing there. Before the race, a very quick shower popped up and 20 minutes later the track canceled the race and the race was still 2 hours away. why the quick trigger? Afraid not enuff of the local crowd would show up to pay the purse for the Dash and the local Late Model show. They did reschedule the race a month later successfully.
The USAR Hooters Cup is now moving into the Southeast tracks that used to provide the DASH its playground (Ace, Lonesome Pine, SNS, Motordome, .....) The Hooter's bring there own money, and sponsors. Dash cannot compete with that, the affordability that the racing provided teams is also their downfall, they needed to pay racing bills from track purses that the track was less willing to provide, had no steady sponsors (very few DASH cars have sponsorship on them, even the regulars changed sponsorship from race to race).
I hate to see the DASH go, people talk about how good their racing is, but unless you have seen them at a track, you truly do not know what your missing. Never been to a dull DASH race, never.
Two years ago I went to a DASH race at Orange Co. Speedway in NC, good track, great Dash racing there. Before the race, a very quick shower popped up and 20 minutes later the track canceled the race and the race was still 2 hours away. why the quick trigger? Afraid not enuff of the local crowd would show up to pay the purse for the Dash and the local Late Model show. They did reschedule the race a month later successfully.
The USAR Hooters Cup is now moving into the Southeast tracks that used to provide the DASH its playground (Ace, Lonesome Pine, SNS, Motordome, .....) The Hooter's bring there own money, and sponsors. Dash cannot compete with that, the affordability that the racing provided teams is also their downfall, they needed to pay racing bills from track purses that the track was less willing to provide, had no steady sponsors (very few DASH cars have sponsorship on them, even the regulars changed sponsorship from race to race).
I hate to see the DASH go, people talk about how good their racing is, but unless you have seen them at a track, you truly do not know what your missing. Never been to a dull DASH race, never.
buckaroo
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Mike, one of the clerks that worked in my office used to own a Dash car, Had many of the current and non-current Cup drivers drive for him. He told me many stories about the series that I wouldn't have believed and how NASCAR treated them. He told me the reason he got out of it was the politics of NASCAR.