How far from home are you going to race?

dirt330 · 3/16/12, 7:28 PM

Staying within 75 miles of Indy except for 3-crown at Eldora. If I go more than 75 miles I'll need someone to share travel expenses. Maybe we should look into renting one of those school buses even for trips to Bloomington, Terre Haute, Lawrenceburg etc. maybe from Indys southside. Any ideas we are all in this same boat with fuel cost ?

Al Pierce · 3/16/12, 9:10 PM

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Originally Posted by mowerman

Heading east on the 2000 mile trex to indiana april 1st , will be spending the summer there .

Have a safe trip. We'll see you around the local tracks this summer.

MarkHarden · 3/17/12, 9:48 AM

We will be running LPS and Paragon, it will take us between 20 and 45 minutes to get to the track!!!!

thebus79h · 3/17/12, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by racephoto1

I know this is political but.....

If our governments were tighter on their purse strings, they wouldn't tax gas (petrol) to death. Most of te cost is in the taxes, not the product.

This is kinda true. I've learned a lot about the way all this works. The troll at the gate that is the problem isn't the government. The government pretty much has a flat tax on it, but when the cost goes up, so does the taxes, that's just how it is.

The money is made from the refinery to the distributor, they are the ones that is making all the money. I quoted a trucking compay 6,000 gallons for their tank at the truck yard a few months back, I wasn't making any money at all virtually, but the actual "cost" of fuel I know for a fact was about half what we had to charge.

There are so few actual fuel distributors (for a reason, so the market doesn't get flooded and the price goes down), and all the fuel distributors (the big ones) are all owned by the oil companies, then sell to the smaller people, to where they have to sell so much to even make a buck. If they didn't tax anything at all, the price would maybe go down 75 cents.

HARFprez · 3/19/12, 12:00 PM

the beauty of living in central Indiana (Speedway to be exact) is that we have our choice of great race tracks within an hours drive in any direction, 1 big one right behind the house...bob.

tim kelley · 3/20/12, 9:20 PM

When I race its 78 miles to Lawremceburg. Little over 200 miles to Waynesfield, About 160 to Paragon, and about 190 to Putnamville. Not bad!

3/16/12, 7:28 PM	#21 Re: How far from home are you going to race?
dirt330 Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 4,583	Staying within 75 miles of Indy except for 3-crown at Eldora. If I go more than 75 miles I'll need someone to share travel expenses. Maybe we should look into renting one of those school buses even for trips to Bloomington, Terre Haute, Lawrenceburg etc. maybe from Indys southside. Any ideas we are all in this same boat with fuel cost ? _________________________________________________ Last edited by dirt330; 3/16/12 at 8:42 PM.

3/17/12, 9:48 AM	#23 Re: How far from home are you going to race?
MarkHarden Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 89	We will be running LPS and Paragon, it will take us between 20 and 45 minutes to get to the track!!!!

3/19/12, 12:00 PM	#25 Re: How far from home are you going to race?
HARFprez Senior Member Race Count This Year: 3 Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,221	the beauty of living in central Indiana (Speedway to be exact) is that we have our choice of great race tracks within an hours drive in any direction, 1 big one right behind the house...bob.

3/20/12, 9:20 PM	#26 Re: How far from home are you going to race?
tim kelley Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 165	When I race its 78 miles to Lawremceburg. Little over 200 miles to Waynesfield, About 160 to Paragon, and about 190 to Putnamville. Not bad!