Nascar needs to save small local track racing

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Gregbifflefan16

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nascar needs to save the smaller local tracks for the people like me who hope to race late models soon and work my up to the northwest wekly touring serious and then make crafstman and work my way up from there a lot of drivers have some from small trakcs like greg biffle, kasey mears,kasey kane, and many more(those are just the ones that have rafces at my racetrack that i go to TCR tri-city reaceway) they need to do something cause a lot of them are closing down for many reasons. :eek:
 
I think you need a good lesson explaining what free enterprise is.

These small tracks are "independent" businesses, many won't even pay the sanctioning fees to be a NASCAR sanctioned track, but YOU think NASCAR should be responsible to save them?

My God man people are all over NASCAR calling it a monopoly now and you want them to somehow control the little tracks too?

Oh Yeah that's right, school is out isn't it. Tell you what, go finish 6th grade and you'll understand better.
 
I don't think nascar should, i think the dirt sactions UMP, IMCA, CARS, FASTRAK, WoO, NARA, ect ect. should do a little more. I am luck to live with in 35 mins of to of the best tracks in the usa. Paducah Int, and Ky. Lake. last i heard they were the olny 2 dirt tracks in the state of Kentucky that run Lates every weekend.

We have a NASCAR night at PIR. Since Scrader and JR took it over we have had 2 of them so far this year. It draws in a lot of people, and hopefully some will come back for a weekly show.

I meet Kasey Kane back in 2001, he finished last in the WoO sprint car race at PIR. got his autograph to. Who would of thunk a few years later he would be tearing it up in nascar.

But when it gets down to it, with gas prices going up, racing gas is about twice as much as gas station gas. (i pay 5-6 a gal for 110-112) So a lot of the fans are not going, and thats causing the tracks to loose money. So we as fans and drivers need to get out and go to the track everyweekend and support them, cause a track can run its own rules it dont need a saction telling them what to run, because with out fans in the stands there is no race, no matter how many cars are there.
 
NASCAR is hurting the local tracks by running so many Saturday night races. They have ran a Cup race 4 of the last 5 weekends. That puts a squeeze on the weekly tracks.

At the same time, I think weekly racing is starting to fade out. Here in east Tennessee, we have a lot of tracks. Several of them are closed now. Of the ones that are open, attendance and car counts are down. But the special event, big races I have gone to this year have decent to good car counts and good attendance. I think fans just aren't going out to weekly races and are opting to go to big money, special events.
 
I don't think nascar running a night race hurts the car count, unless the drivers go to that race. The weather here in West KY there has been a chance of rain everyweekend since we started racing, and some of the races got rained out. But as the weather gets better i think the fans will pick back up. I think were i race, is there is 2 tracks with in like 20 miles of each orther, and ppl will go to one and not the orther, that is just 2 close for the tracks to last. last year they tryed one track one one week and the next the orther track will run, but rain stoped a lot of weeks, and one track closed and the orther track did not pick up and run every week. so they hurt racing around here, but both tracks are up and running this year one on fir, and one on sat.
 
Gregbifflefan16 said:
kasey mears,kasey kane,
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Hmm, I am not familiar with these drivers, do they race?

I know Casey Mears and Kasey Kahne :p
 
MRM said:
NASCAR is hurting the local tracks by running so many Saturday night races. They have ran a Cup race 4 of the last 5 weekends. That puts a squeeze on the weekly tracks.

At the same time, I think weekly racing is starting to fade out. Here in east Tennessee, we have a lot of tracks. Several of them are closed now. Of the ones that are open, attendance and car counts are down. But the special event, big races I have gone to this year have decent to good car counts and good attendance. I think fans just aren't going out to weekly races and are opting to go to big money, special events.
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I don't think so, NASCAR racing on Sat. night has no effect on if I go to Irwindale or not, lots of other factors do though. Afterall, if Cup isn't racing on Sat, Busch is usually. Anyway that's why we've got TiVo and VCR's.
 
I haven't see any difference in the amount of fans on a Saturday night when Cup is on tv. The local tracks here that i go to like Stafford Speedway, Thompson Speedway, and Waterford Speedbowl don't seem to be hurting for fans or car counts. Could be the management at your track just doesn't get things done.
 
A lot of places it not the Management, its the car counts and the fans. One of the best promoters i have ever meet is John Tindle that owned Paducah Int. (be Bob Saegent, Schrader, and JR got it) he won awards for promoter of the year and such, well he shut the track down last aug, The fan count went down, and he started using his own money for the payout, and finaly had to shut down. So you have have the best promoter in the world, so, with out the fans there is no race.
 
I don't care how many awards he got, if he wasn't getting butts in the seats, he ain't doing a good job promoting.
How's the car & fan count now? what are they doing different? Isn't that promoting?
 
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