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Originally Posted by on_the_edge
It's the principal of the fact that the track is not supporting the racers. It is isw so of course cars are going to show up but what happens the rest of the year? Without cars the track has nothing to offer and attendance drops. Gas city needs to examine their product they are offering and work with the racers not against them, some drivers make their money off shirts and the convenience of having them by the gate as fans walk in helps boost sales. This is not about buying a shirt in the end but about the track supporting the people who put the show on for them.
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That's the truth. And people here on IOW, that follow this stuff as close as we all do tend to think that everybody must go to the pits. The majority of the people in the stands are more casual fans, that never go to the pits. A lot of the people with small kids are among them. A few years ago, I was walking around by the concession stand at The Burg. I had a Bryan Clauson t shirt on. This lady with a girl who was probably 10 or 11 stopped me and asked where I got my shirt at, because her kid really wanted one. I said you have to get them in the pits. She asked me if I was going back there again tonight, because they never go to the pits. I said yes, she gave me (a perfect stranger) a twenty dollar bill and to make a long story short, that was a pretty happy kid when she got her BC t shirt. That's the people those guys would like access to. And some of them are local fans. I know it's hard for some of us to believe EVERYBODY doesn't go to 70-80 races a year, but there is such a thing as a local race fan, that might only go to one of these races.
Jerry