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Originally Posted by sprinter25
You'll never get a track to run at your hypothetical "break-even" numbers. You've forgetten to include the obvious - the track acquisition costs, as well as the costs for upkeep, personnel, advertising, insurance, equipment, etc....Most likely if you double the purse number, you'll approach what it costs to run a race track and break even.....And I can't think of anyone who'd do this for FREE....IMO, a track has to turn a profit for the promoter, or he'll be gone...most track owners/promoters run a race track as their secondary/tertiary business
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This could potentially work on the basis that a promotor actually promoted and didn't just sit on his ass and say "We are racin, come on over!"
The thing is you wouldn't have to pay the Stocks that much money and they'd still show up, pay the sprints what you propose, and you'd be set. The way most insurance works is you pay per person that comes thru the pit gate, and I've heard that you can pay as little as 3 dollars a person, up to 8 dollars a person and maybe more. But you're also not counting in concession stand income, along with 50/50 income, along with local sponsorships for each race. You find a title sponsor for each division that gives a thousand dollars or so for a points fund, and you'll build more cars that way. A lot of the micro sprint tracks used to just have "Mac's chesseburger stand night" or whatever it may be, and make some extra money that way.