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Originally Posted by cecil98
i'm not sure how true this is but, i read earlier this year that one promotor wanted to charge more for the USAC show at his track and USAC nixed the price increase because they wanted uniformity in admissions pricing for their shows. anyone remember hearing about this? so, maybe USAC does have some say in setting gate prices, or not?
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Here's what I can tell you about how some of this works. Keep in mind that each track can be differnt and that depends on the contract, insurance obligations and such as they sign an agreement for the event. I do not know all the details or any exact figure, so any I state is just to be used as an example for this discussion.
First what a track charges the general public to come in the front gate is not something we control. It's their's to decide what the public is willing to pay. As for the pit passes. Again depending on the agreement for the event a portion of the pit fee goes directly toward the cost for insurance per signed in person, I'm going to say $15. as an example not an exact figure. Any additional amount above the cost of the insurance is then set by the track or usac depending on how the contract was agreed to. Some times the track recieves all the pit gate fee's and some times usac keeps the pit gate fee's. I generaly never get to see the contracts with the tracks. One of the main reasons we have someone selling the pit passes at the events is for insurance purposes only, not to regulate the price of the pit passes.
I hope this explains it a little. It was how it was explained to me. So if there is a promotor that deals with usac and this isn't right please fill free to corect me.
Ron