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Originally Posted by Sandy Lowe
Do you think the reason why Knoxville can pay more than local Indiana tracks is the fact that there are a lot fewer sprint races in the area for fans/sponsors/competitors to choose from?
Counting wing 410 & 360 races Knoxville has 24 race nights. There are another 15 races across the state giving Iowa a total of 39 sprint races. NONE of those are scheduled against another sprint race in the state.
Checking the Indiana schedules there are 138 non wing race nights scheduled. There are multiple nights where two (and sometimes three) tracks compete against each other. And this doesn’t include steel block sprints, World of Outlaws, silver crown races, or pavement racing.
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You make a good point but that’s not the case in Pennsylvania and specifically central Pennsylvania where there are multiple tracks with 2 competing with each other on Saturday night and I don’t believe any of them pay less than $3K to win…the same can be said for Ohio where you have both Attica & Fremont paying $3K/300 & while Attica has no Friday night competition Fremont can have as many as 3 other tracks running sprints on a Saturday night