Thread: 'Burg car count
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TheLip2 (Offline)
  #32 6/15/09 11:18 PM
Wow - a little of everything has been said on this thread. I think that is good. A good dialogue and to get the opinions out. I have a few of my own questions, observations and opinions I would like to throw in . . .

1) The threads title was about car counts at the burg. Somehow it turned more into a discussion about the racing surface this past Saturday.

2) Dave you say you are happy with the 24 cars. I can tell you this much for sure . . . the fans ARE NOT HAPPY with 24 cars! Yes, there have been some high caliber cars and great racers in those 24 cars, but 24 cars isn't a hell of a lot of sprint car racing when you don't even need a consi. If I were you I would BUST MY ASS to get AT LEAST 30 cars a week. I LOVE LAWRENCEBURG SPEEDWAY and SPRINT CAR RACING, but I can tell you that both me and some of my friends aren't going to continue to pay $15 to see 22 sprints, 24 mods and who cares how damn many mini-sprints. I would pay tow money or $300 to the back or whatever you have to do to get some of the middle of the road and lower budget teams to your track more often. What if you paid $500 at the end of the season for every sprint car that came to every weekly race? Maybe you could miss up to three races and still get the money? I don't know just brainstorming here . . . some kind of bonus something to get the count to 30-35 car average per week. I don't think it would cost that much . . . . There are a lot of cars on the bubble that go to VCS, paragon, etc. I think you can get some of those cars and NEED TO GET THEM. If you don't get them the stands will start to empty out and then it will be too late to fix. THE TIME IS NOW . . . limp out this season, do what you can to keep people happy and then make a big announcement for next years weekly incentives. Hell one less $10,000 show would probably pay for it.

3) Just a thought I been having lately . . . is $10,000 to win really the holy grail of spint car payouts? I have been watching shows with a keen eye for the last 3 years in regards to payouts and car counts, etc. I have noticed that even the $3000 to win races usually get a really nice bump in car counts just because it pays a decent bit more to win than the other regular shows . . . so that being said, I don't think most drivers totally believe that they are going to go out and dominate and win on a given night. There are usually 10 maybe 15 guys for a big show that probably really feel they have a great chance to win and that is probably an optimistic number. The rest are filling the field, need great luck, the perfect setup or an out of body experience to win. I think that if you had a $5000 to win race and spent the other $5000 increasing the back of the field numbers to a $500 minimum that you would have bigger car counts, more exciting shows and ultimately more butts in the seats! What do you guys think? Am I wrong? You get those back end guys there with the big bump at the back of the purse and create some loyalty with them!

4) Yes, the tires were higher this week on the bottom of the track. They probably could have been a little lower, BUT like DAVE said IT IS STILL THE WIDEST BIGGEST TRACK IN THE STATE! There was plenty of racing room. One thing that I do think that could have made a big difference as CHUCK noted, MODS would have helped the racing surface greatly in my opinion. Next year, Mods and Sprints during midget week. Just ignore Dyno Don when he starts whining about being up after sundown. There is a happy medium . . . I don't like paying $20 for a special show and seeing one class of V8's and being home by 9:30. The fans want value there are only a handfull that want to finish up the same time the sun sets. I told several people that the track was great by the end of the feature. If there could have been one more race (midgets or sprints) you may have seen the best race ever at L'burg speedway. The track was obviously a little more wet and fast than it needed to be and like Dave said. We should be damn happy we got to see a race at all with the rain we had, not to mention what the staff had to deal with after losing a loved one!

5) Brad and Craig . . . thanks for supporting The Burg . . . Craig . . . .ignore the grumpy lady in the pickup that wanted you to take the canopy down! LOL That was ridiculous.

6) Dyno Don ... don't think I ever met you, but been reading your posts here now for 2 seasons and I don't think you like Lawrenceburg. I do feel very certain that you really, really don't like to be up past dark. I bet you hated it when they started night baseball. (if you ever like baseball) You may even hate the Reds since they started night baseball. Why don't you take a nap during the afternoon or sleep in before you go to a sprint car race that has potential for going a little long so that you aren't totally pissed off and miserable if it isn't over before 10p?

7) Dave - also want you to know that I bust my ass always spreading the word about The Burg to anyone who will listen. Gas City, Eldora, Manzy even Florence there are a lot of people that have just never came or at least never came since the reconfiguration. I have a few ideas of my own on ways that I could possible help the track as well. I am not looking for compensation either . . . I would just like to see this track come to be known as one of the greatest dirt tracks in the country and for the Lawrenceburg Speedway to be talked about in the same breath as places like Eldora and Manzanita. (RIP)

8) Does anyone know why Ballou was not at the Burg saturday? I heard on the backstretch that he didn't like bikers. Is that true?