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Al Pierce
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6/15/11 7:56 PM
Originally Posted by
cecil98
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Your nose is growing........
---------- Post added at 06:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:36 PM ----------
I've got mixed emotions about the new track vs. the old 1/4 mile but...I still love the place and it saddens me to see the low car counts of the last couple of shows. Dave and Kim deserve better..I'm not sure what more they can do for the racers than they already have to attract them....I'm sure the economy and location have something to with this problem....so many sprint cars are based within a 50 mile radius of Indy and it may just be too expensive for some of the lower budget guys to drive past or away from a race track that is closer to them....I don't know????
Well, I think the last three words of your post are the most intelligent of all the remarks contained in several threads on the Lawrenceburg subject. We have seen inane suggestions like tracks within 150 miles should shut down when Lawrenceburg runs and any other track that dares to run should have only support classes. Some have even resorted to insulting other tracks that have absolutely nothing to do with the Lawrenceburg car count. Then we see posts that claim the dozen or so sprint cars present at Lawrenceburg put on what could only be deemed a classic. The truth is that last weekend there were probably only three sprint car teams at LPS
and
Paragon that would have gone to Lawrenceburg on any occasion and remember that sprint cars were the support series to midget week at Lawrenceburg. Maybe the business model is wrong. Maybe Lawrenceburg is really a modified or late model track. Maybe there are not enough sprint car teams in the area to support sprints being the main attraction. Whatever the case, it seems that one should look closer to Lawrenceburg for solutions to the problem, if there is one, than Putnamville or Paragon. Both have established themselves as Saturday night fixtures in west central Indiana. They are less than 25 miles apart and don't try to steal each other's thunder. The stands are filled every week with people who come to watch their neighbors, cousins, in-laws, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters run. Oh, they have their little complaints, but they settle them between themselves. They don't expect other tracks to settle them. Good luck to you in the southeast in finding a solution. Rant mode off.
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