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Why wouldn't promoter's keep the gates locked till say midnight the day of a special event such as Indiana Sprint Week? I'm not one that is against seat saving but I also don't like the idea of saving your or my seat a week or 3,4 days in advance. Some can't do the whole week and drive 3 to 8 hrs one way and by the time they arrive they find out that their not going to get a decent seat. I don't mean for this to sound like a negative post at all, I'd just like to see what everyone thinks about the idea of the promoters waiting till race day to open the gate to save seats? I know some don't agree with saving at all but that's for another day. Thanks and ya'll enjoy the rest of
ISW, I know I will. :32:

I’m with you 100% Rick. Seats saved day of show only.

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Yeah I agree day of show only :8:

Policy everywhere should be like Kokomo.Open at certain time and everyone goes in.No tape,blankets,cones,etc.End of story.

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Same stuff, Different year.
Not sure which track since GC isn't involved now that you can't walk in a hour before race time and get a good seat.

I’ve always had good luck getting a decent seat. Sometimes I had to do some strategic planning to accomplish this.


The saving seats don’t really bother me, but I’ve seen plenty of people save the row in front of them just so they wouldn’t have anyone sitting in front of them which I don’t care for.


I thought Rick that you had racing burnout like me last I heard??? :D:D

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I’ve always been opposed to the whole blanket thing. Charge for reserved seating if you want your seat reserved. Have the number on the seat match the number on the ticket. Whose to say someone can’t rip my blanket off my seat when I go get some beer? After all they paid the same “general” admission price that I did.

Granted I rarely set in the regular stands I don’t believe in saving seats everyone should have the same opportunity to get seats. Gates open when they do and all seats should be available.

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I think marking should be limited to raceday. As far as should the gates be left open in the morning of raceday and allow people to mark there area off or should gates be closed until official opening.. I just want to know the rules of the game so I know how to play them. Let it be common knowledge and don't change policy without stating that you are changing it. I'll adapt.

I think being able to mark your area is essiential; you shouldn't have to stay in your seat for 6 hours just to be able to keep it. I go to most races alone, and that just doesn't work for me that you get up and anyone can take your space no matter how long you've been there (at track) or in that spot. It's general admission but once you've arrived and claimed a piece of real estate it's yours.

Tracks that allow no marking at all, or has a fan base that does not respect this.. I will avoid.

But to cycle back around, tracks that allow marking a day or more in advance of the race, also leave a sour taste in my mouth and I avoid unless the show they put on really makes up for it. But I can see where allowing marking this far advance is a nice perk for the local fans who probably attend regularly. Goods and bads.

Andrew, my burnouts are short but sweet then the forward bite grabs hold.;) I'm not against the seat saving either, but days in advance just doesn't seem right and as far as marking the row in front of you so you can put your feet and or food and drink is totally uncalled for and know a couple that do that. My question was, do people think day's in advance is alright or not let it happen till the race day?

It doesn’t matter much to me either way I guess. People always bitched about Gas City and blankets,and I was one of the guilty parties there (for 1 season anyway) and the other seasons I sat with Aero on his blanket. I think even he posted have em sell season seats like Williams Grove does. So much money per seat for the season, and then regular admission. I wouldn’t have had a problem with that, I was there the majority of the time anyway.

I’ve just planned ahead and have had good luck sitting about where I wanted to. Sometimes I’ve had friends put my blanket down for me because I had to work. Other times I’ve done the same for others.

You can have my seat this week. I’m not going to any Sprint Week races.....

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I have a problem with season reserved seats, because when you come in you never know where the he!! you can sit because you don't know what's been reserved. I've seen little tiny plaques used to show what was reserved (old looking), but if it's a non-reserved show and there's nothing on the web page of the track about reserved anything you aren't looking for that crap.
Just don't do that crap unless you are advertising LOUD on the website that some seats are reserved for the season, and the seats SCREAM don't sit in me.

So basically your not going to make everyone happy no matter what you do. I never minded the reserve seats at Williams Grove despite that I only got to use them a few times a year. They were the best seats in the house in my view, and I knew they were mine whenever I went there.

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Unless it has changed, Bloomington allows marking seats starting at 5PM the day before a race. The row above the bleachers, on the blacktop, is reserved and marked as such. They also have some reserved parking spots on the hill which are also marked as such.

Seat saving is one thing, BUT, the guy who saves 10 seats and then sits Alone all night.

I can understand the argument against saving seats. You can have the policy that nobody saves any seats until the gates open the day of the event. However, then you just have a row of blankets outside the ticket booth that stretches a hundred yards like on Saturday of Sprint Week last year at Kokomo. If a person can’t get there ahead of time to save a seat they certainly wouldn’t be able to save themselves a place in line either.

I think the best thing a track can do to combat the issue is do what Kokomo does for the Smackdown and say X amount of rows are reserved and then below those are GA. Fair to all involved I think. Haubstadt basically does the same.

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I just want to know the rules. And if a track can communicate that there is reserved season seats and they are CLEARLY marked that is one thing. But when you have random seats reserved, that are not clearly marked, and no mention of it on your website on the home page or schedule page, then you are causing problems.

If it's an event where top 5 rows are reserved and that's it; then you know to sit in row 6 or lower or buy a reserved seat. But if 2 random seats top row are reserved, and random 4 seats on row 7, and here and there with no advertising or obvious marks. You are causing people trouble for no reason. Been there, big pet peeve. But it really comes down to track's communication and follow through of marking. (And most tracks I've been to suck on the follow through on the grandstands side. Even some really good tracks, still don't do what they say they are going to on the grandstands side. As long as they have your money, close enough)

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I hate blankets laid in advance, unless they were my blankets back in the day at Flemington. I used to like them blankets. We had the same seats, first turn top row forever. I never gave it much thought, it was a advantage of living near the track.
We never sat down the entire night and we could climb down the back of the grandstands instead of working down thru the crowds. Nobody cared, today you'd be in trouble for using the "back" exit.

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Just # the seats and sell ticket# like any sporting event. buy tix in advance or general admission ,Maybe stay home and whine about it !!

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what color is your blanket? is it top row i'll sit there. thanks for saving my seat ;)

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My many racing blankets are at my house. I could rent them out. Many different colors,red,blue, tan. I used to work in a woolen mill where we made wool cloth for jackets....I used to tell people that I was a "Man of the cloth"........:D:D:D:D

Would think a promotor doesn't give a hoot about who's butt is in what seat or blanket as long as all are full. All this nit picking sounds like a bunch of hens. Plenty of seats at all tracks. Step away from the puter and enjoy a live show. I swear, some of you ain't happy unless your b!tching and even then you fail to appropriate just how good you got it.

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This Speedvision is a good thing. No smokers, no chewing tobacco, no guy going after beer 7-8 times spilling it every trip. No guy offering a beer 30 times while never watching the races. No people taking up 19 parking spots to play cornhole and or park sideways. No dust. No climbing over coolers and a weeks worth of groceries in the stands on the end of the row. No bad rest rooms. No complaining about all the above. The racing is as good and food excellent.

The picture is getting really, really good, with some comical fills. Good job!