Trucks at Martinsville

buckaroo said:
Okay, maybe you are right about current fans, but I still think that many of them are faddish, if that is a word. As for BGS, do you have a local track? Any big names talk about it? As for Myers, he lives here and two of his nephews race and win championships there. BGS is unique and is one of the oldest NASCAR tracks in the nation. It is completely flat and runs around a football field. And speaking of football fields, the city is thinking about selling the stadium to Winston Salem State University, who uses the stadium for their football games. Racing at the famed track could end sometime in the future and that would be a shame.
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But he doesn't have to mention the track every 10 minutes.....Sure if't free advertising for the track because his family race there..
 
For what its worth , as someone who doesn't know the short tracks , I have always found Chocolate's references to Bowman Grey quite interesting and colorful. Jack Arute and his shameless promotion of Stafford Speedway gets old real fast.Maybe it is because Chocolate has no financial interest in the track.
 
I would like to see more short tracks, because the back markers actually become part of the show. Negotiating laped cars has been a part of stock car racing for a long time, but all these long and wide tracks make it unnecessary.
 
ted@economy said:
For what its worth , as someone who doesn't know the short tracks , I have always found Chocolate's references to Bowman Grey quite interesting and colorful. Jack Arute and his shameless promotion of Stafford Speedway gets old real fast.Maybe it is because Chocolate has no financial interest in the track.
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Jack Arute has made Stafford a gem. The track is in great shape, the pits are getting better every year, they have a "family section"in the stands, no drinking, smoking, or foul language. The program runs like a precision drill team, no lags between races. The safety crews are rolling before cars come to a stop after a incident. Clean up is quick! The food at the track is actually edible! From a racers point of view the officials play no favorites, right is right, wrong is wrong. Unlike Seekonk where if your father raced there rules don't apply to you.If your grandfather raced there you're guaranteed a win.
My only regret about Stafford is there's no way to get there quickly from here, hour and a half, 2 hours mostly on twisty two lane roads.
 
SST55 said:
Jack Arute has made Stafford a gem. The track is in great shape, the pits are getting better every year, they have a "family section"in the stands, no drinking, smoking, or foul language. The program runs like a precision drill team, no lags between races. The safety crews are rolling before cars come to a stop after a incident. Clean up is quick! The food at the track is actually edible! From a racers point of view the officials play no favorites, right is right, wrong is wrong. Unlike Seekonk where if your father raced there rules don't apply to you.If your grandfather raced there you're guaranteed a win.
My only regret about Stafford is there's no way to get there quickly from here, hour and a half, 2 hours mostly on twisty two lane roads.
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Speaking of clean up crew....Holy Christ it took a LOOOOONG time to get the 15 truck off the track yesterday..wtf was that about?
 
Kevin certainly stunk up the show yesterday. I agree with some of the posts that maybe there should be a limit on cup guys in at least the trucks. I was thinking about something like 2-3 years of cup and you can't run the trucks. I know at some local tracks (the ones I grew up in anyway) once you ran certain classes you couldn't move back down.
 
Thegroundpounder99 said:
Kevin certainly stunk up the show yesterday. I agree with some of the posts that maybe there should be a limit on cup guys in at least the trucks. I was thinking about something like 2-3 years of cup and you can't run the trucks. I know at some local tracks (the ones I grew up in anyway) once you ran certain classes you couldn't move back down.
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I was thinking that after their rookie year, cup drivers can race in the lower series only as a mentor to a non-cup driver. They can do 10 - 12 races to help secure sponsorship, and the other driver runs the rest. Restricting the cup light organizations in some way would be helpful too, and keep them from sucking up most of the purse and sponsors.
 
Thegroundpounder99 said:
Kevin certainly stunk up the show yesterday. I agree with some of the posts that maybe there should be a limit on cup guys in at least the trucks. I was thinking about something like 2-3 years of cup and you can't run the trucks. I know at some local tracks (the ones I grew up in anyway) once you ran certain classes you couldn't move back down.
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I really don't think the local track owners or competitors would see it your way. At my local track , they pay a couple of cup guys to come in each year to race the big year end feature . It sells out the track for the event and gives the local guys the chance to meet and race against the cup guys. Maybe get noticed , who knows .Anyway the Cup guys get a contending car to run, all expenses paid , and an appearance fee. Everybody wins , including the fans.
 
ted@economy said:
I really don't think the local track owners or competitors would see it your way. At my local track , they pay a couple of cup guys to come in each year to race the big year end feature . It sells out the track for the event and gives the local guys the chance to meet and race against the cup guys. Maybe get noticed , who knows .Anyway the Cup guys get a contending car to run, all expenses paid , and an appearance fee. Everybody wins , including the fans.
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Some tracks don't need gimmicks like that to fill their stands.
 
ted@economy said:
I really don't think the local track owners or competitors would see it your way. At my local track , they pay a couple of cup guys to come in each year to race the big year end feature . It sells out the track for the event and gives the local guys the chance to meet and race against the cup guys. Maybe get noticed , who knows .Anyway the Cup guys get a contending car to run, all expenses paid , and an appearance fee. Everybody wins , including the fans.
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That's a bit of a different ball game, IMO. When Cup drivers make appearances at local short tracks, they obviously don't do so with Cup teams, and for once, there are actually guys who know more about getting around the track than they do. Tony Stewart and David Ragan came to Thunder Road a couple years ago, drove cars prepared by the local teams, and neither of them was ever a factor in their respective races.

In that situation, everyone is thinking "it'll be nice to see if our guys can give the big stars a run for their money." Conversely, a ten year Cup veteran with a Cup team in a truck race, it's shooting fish in a barrel.
 
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