Originally Posted by Kirk Spridgeon:
Can’t help but be a little disappointed that, after a weekend where everyone in attendance was happy with great car count and crowd numbers and quality of racing, I come to a place where the most loyal supporters are supposed to be only to see negativity.
I was asked by someone if our fan base is as crabby as the e-mails they got BEFORE the race even took place would indicate.
The facts are that the track’s expectations were exceeded on car count, fan count, cooperation, quality of racing, everything. The racing on Friday was fantastic, in both divisions (many people calling it the best night of racing they’d seen at Knoxville - admittedly that’s opinion). On Saturday, it was much the same except for a certain 69 car walking away. The crowd was fantastic - bigger than what we’ve seen previously at Knoxville and again meeting/exceeding expectations. I can’t say enough about the competitor base and how they handled themselves all week. It was an overwhelmingly positive weekend on the ground, with the only questions being what can we tweak for next year.
I don’t know what else to say other than that it’s disappointing to see. I felt like everyone there this weekend was pulling in the same direction. If you consider yourself enough of a fan to be on an insider forum such as this, it’s mind-boggling to me that you’d be so steadfast on finding shortcomings with a major event that checked all the boxes of being an emphatic success in year one.
Thank you to Mr. Thomas & Mr. Sears for providing insight from someone in attendance and with full perspective.
I think you are possibly missing the point by some on this board/thread, the complaint is NOT with the race, the racing, the competitors, the event, location. No problem at all.
Actually most of the sprint car fans on Indiana Open Wheel are SUPER fans and we were "there" ONLINE. I have watched almost every USAC lap online or in person as many others on here have all year.
Our complaint was: we thought and were told via website, the race at Knoxville was on the FloRacing events, part of what we are paying for.
SO to watch all of both nights as fans will want to do, we had to pay $40.00 more to use Dirt Vision.
That's the complaint. The race was great. In fact USAC should run more at Knoxville, Oskaloosa as it is great on the big half miles. Maybe I missed your point, but my complaint wasn't with the race or location.