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Originally Posted by LEADERS EDGE
You had cars and no fans.
Some "Highlights" of it's existance as a track.....
-Opening morning: Had T.V and media there. They fired up a few cars for the T.V crew......Nothing but dust storm. They hadn't watered it or at least not enough. The T.V reporters made comments like....It shouldn't be this Dusty tonight and things of that nature. You couldn't see the cars for the dust.
-Opening night was S.R.O, but ran very late and some left.(Great race)
-U.A.W. night: So many tickets given away that they had to let fans sit on the pit side and many left mad.
-Summer Sizzle: I refuse to call it the "Summer Fizzle like others did because that isn't fair to the teams. People who called or went for tickets were told it was sold out when it wasn't. That's if someone was there at all. They couldn't get tickets even when they wanted them. People who were told they could camp were then told they had to move.
-A.M.A Flat track: Sold out event. Tons of bikes. The track didn't do the safety requirements specified by A.M.A(Hay bails) and the race was canceled on race day.
The list goes on and on and much of it ends with a very late program with die hard fans going home. It's too bad because it was a very unique experience.
By the way.....the very last race.......It was a day show that was advertised as a night show and fans were showing up when the teams were leaving.
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the summer sizzle was a financial disaster but the racing was GREAT!! The Chris Coers win on one of the perliminary nights was one of the better races i've ever seen, 3 cars literally touching as they took the checkered. On the final night of the Sizzle Critter had them all covered until he hit a hole about where home plate would be and crashed it......then they fixed the hole....in the middle of the race. They had drivers from all over the country at that race even Sleepy Tripp hauled in from Cali. One thing that pizzed people off was that on a normal show you could bring coolers in but they were turned away at the gate for that race. I saw some get so mad that they turned around and went home. I was at the very last race then headed off to IRP for USAC sprints that evening.