Terre Haute carry in coolers allowed
 

Just got off the phone with Track Enterprises. Coolers ARE allowed for this Saturdays USAC Sprint Car Race. Didn't matter one way or another to me. I just checked for the benefit of the people asking. I never have let a no cooler policy keep me from going to the races...

Tim Wolffrum aka Cowboy

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Woohoo!

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I dont get that. You can bring beer in to Terre Haute but in Putnamville it says state law you cant.

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here we go again

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What the hell , are we racing or having a beer drinking contest . Drop it ,

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No i was just wondering. I dont really go to drink beer if i am driving. I went to LPS and did not want to have one saturday night.

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:deadhorse:

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I'm In!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:32::32::32:

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It is against excise laws to carry in alcohol to any establishment that sells alcohol. Not one single bar in the state will let you BYOB because that is their primary purpose of business; to sell liquor, beer, wine or whatever beverages they serve. Sprint car race tracks primary business is not to sell beer. That is just another way the race track can make money. With that being said any track that does allow beer to be carried in is somewhat taking away from their potential profits. In today's economy the race track needs all the profits it can get as it is sometimes hard to make ends meet. This argument can go either way but as far as the law is concerned beer is not permitted to be brought in. But could you imagine if they tried to stop all of the beer drinkers bringing in their coolers to Indy for the 500. Not going to happen. Some people, maybe not die hard sprint car fans but some people may choose not to go to a racetrack if they cannot carry in their own beer. So the promoter must make the decision on how they want to run their track and whether or not they want the beer to be carried in. However, most all beer drinking race fans have their cooler in their car even if they can not bring it into the racetrack.

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Here is the way I understand it. It depends on who holds the liquior licesne. When Greg Staub ran The' Burg he had a local bar sell beer so you could bring in your own. He made his money off the rent paid by the bar.
ORP is also catered and I believe IMS is also and as THAT is now or was.

I can not understand why a track would want a liquior licesne, with cost of liquior liablity insurance and the chance of getting sued over a liquior accident. Let a caterer take all the resposniblity,no worrys and you make a buck on space rental for the track owner.

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www.in.gov/atc all the laws are posted here.
i carry a temp alcohol permit.
The reason i sell beer is to make money, the same reason we sell food and drinks. If your not in it to make money you are a fool. I gotta go now and wax my mercedes and clean my mansion. :3:
Have a great weekend and just go and enjoy some racing.

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Dave WOW I kinda figured you'd have at least a ouple of Mercedes:8:

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AND... thank goodness the casino came to town to build us a awesome race track

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What are you going to do when someone has to much beer and kills somebody? Then sues you and takes you for everything your worth.

I used to own a bar and liquior liability is expensive, I hope you have the insurance, because if you do not you are playing with fire. I can not see how the cost of liquior insurance can be worth selling beer once a week.

Again it seems it would be smarter to let a caterer sell the beer and take all the responiblilty, you can charge them a fair rent and everybody is happy. You make money with no liability, the caterer makes money and the fans can bring in their own beer.