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Brad Loyet takes the bull by the horns Friday night and wins the $5,000 first place money, Starting on the front row by Bryan Clawson Loyet jumped right out to the lead, over coming several yellow flags and running in lap traffic for part of the race.

Unofficial first four, Loyet, Clawson, Luker, and Brad Kuhn. Loyet green to checkered. 20 feature wins for the young midget driver with maybe one more tommorow night.

Chris Hale joins me on the call. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diM1NePdA3U

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How about that Brad Kuhn comming from19th or 20th to finish 4th great run for him and the 17b team.:2:

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Sure doesn't look to be to big of a crowd. How was the support for the event?

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WOW Thas a small track!

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That place is not practical at all, was out there last year & no matter how many improvements they try to make the biggest improvement that needs to be made, can't be...A BIGGER TRACK!!!!!! You can barely keep the motor running most of the time because of the gear you have to run, the venue deffinitely needs to change to keep this deal going

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That sure looks a little to short.

You know the tracks to small, when you have a yellow and the leader lines up in lapped traffic...:31:

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Originally Posted by staggerman:
Sure doesn't look to be to big of a crowd. How was the support for the event?

I just checked the Kansas City Star online newspaper, and there was no mention of this race. No wonder there only looked to be about 150 or so people in the stands.

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So I just checked the KC Star online again, and there was just as much coverage of last night's race as Friday's program received: Zilch.

Now, if they were to receive some decent press releases prior to the event, I find it rather hard to imagine that the paper would simply refuse to cover a two-day event at Kemper Arena. So one has to wonder if there simply was no effort made locally to promote this deal. Perhaps someone from the KC-area can answer this.

I know this much: three weeks ago at the Turkey Day classic race at Springfield (Mo) Raceway, other than one passing mention of this race by the announcer, I saw and heard nothing else about it. But there was plenty of promos for a demo derby/indoor figure-8 race later this winter at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds. Seems like the demo derby folks are more on the ball about advertising.

I don't mean to be critical. I'd like to support anyone willing to put on a midget race in winter, and I know they can't do anything about the track size, but I'm not sure I want to drive four hours to watch midgets go 45 mph under green. And when it doesn't seem like anyone cares enough to make a good faith effort to promote the deal, why should they expect the fans to care enough to support it?

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I thought that they did a good job of promoting the event in the KC area. They bought radio ads. They had posters at the local O'Reillys. They had a live remote from the track Friday afternoon on the local sports radio station. It was a topic on the Friday race preview segment on the sports radio show for the last two weekends. It was also a topic on the two hour racing show on the last two Saturday morning on sports radio. They also were on all of the internet sites as well.

The crowd Friday night was rough, but the crowd saturday night was a lot better. However, when you have a venue that seats 17,000, it is easy to have a big crowd look sparse.

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From what was said on the radio, they were able to add 20' of length to the track over last year, and they ran the karts the weekend before to do some track prep. I don't believe they have the room to add any more. I hope this event can survive, as it did bring substancial revenue into K.C. I also know the promotor put a lot of expense into trying to make it work. Small track, yeah. Will it make it? I don't know. After watching the video, it was better than I expected, which means improvements were made from last year. We will see!!!

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The track is small, if you are going to judge an event only by the A-Main their are quite a few tracks and races that do not measure up to their billing. Both evenings were filled with some entertaining heat races as well as 3 B-Mains. None of us go to just see the A-Main. It is the race that concludes an evening of watching racers compete for that starting spot in the A.
Many times the racing in the A-Main is not as good because of to many cars, and the drivers loss of respect for a fellow drivers space to race and a desire to over achieve beyond the situation they inconter during the race.This is not the race tracks fault because of size or configuration.
Most World of Outlaw races are single file racing from the time a race leader establishes himself in the front untell the checkered flag flies. This happens on small and large tracks. Is that their fault? Does that make those tracks to big or to small? It is the nature of the race of a perticular type of car or division.

Someone made the statement, their was no passing, watch the video. Lasoski passed Loyet 3 times thru turns 3 and 4 but Loyet came right back and passed him back down the front straightaway. For two days this track was racie thru the whole evening, again do we just judge the event by the one race.

You can not compare this race with any other and come up with a fair call. In just their second year they made major improvments. The Chili Bowl was not a success over night, it took them a while to fine tune it to what it is today. In the begining they neither had the purse or name drivers this event the Bull Ring has had for the last two years.

Away from our side of this race, has anyone heard drivers or race teams complaining about the event. Their were 48 teams that showed up. I know a winner always thinks things were great, but it sure sounded like Loyet was coming back.
After two days at the race I did not hear or see any drivers or teams saying to any one , this stinks or we will not be back. Most of them have no idea who I am, just a local guy with a camera.
Racers and racing seems to flock to money and a good promoted events. Once again, second year, it is a learning process for all involved.

If you were here the first year and left with a bad taste or dust in your mouth, come next year, or the year their after. This event has racing people behind it and will fix the problems. Kansas City is a live and vibrante racing community with people that have been in and around racing for a long time. Danny Lasoski, and Scott Penington have the event in their formost interests for the event itself.

Webster's Thesaurus, Race Hurry, run, tear, fly, dash, and sprint. I did not see depends on size of the track. Mike k.