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8/26/13, 4:14 PM
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Originally Posted by TommyBahama
Thanks for all the opinions, and especially those of you who kept it cordial. I went to both Saturday night Smackdowns so far, bought the $40 pit pass, I always buy a pit pass at every event i attend, and usually have my son and maybe one of his friends, and buy pit passes for everyone.
I've come to the conclusion the Saturday night show is not for me, I'll catch either Thursday or Friday, or maybe both. I want to see everyone in heat races, locking in the top 8 takes some of the excitement from the night, especially if that's the only night you can be there. The King Of The Hill races to me were for the most part average, two cars for three laps. I don't like them at McCarl's event either.
I go to Florida in February, Knoxville for at least a week in August and catch as much Gas City, Lawrenceburg and Kokomo as possible in addition to Eldora, Waynesfield, Attica or Fremont. I'm usually at a race at least two of the three nights on a weekend. All the screwing around and disorganization is getting old. I just haven't found something that I enjoy more than racing, but when I do, who knows I may not go back.
This is a great event and I LOVE KOKOMO SPEEDWAY, so I'm not trying to be negative. My point was 3 heats a B and A main to take that long makes for a frustrating night and honestly no reason for me to be driving on back roads in Ohio at 1am. There's no easy way to Kokomo from where I live, it's a hard 2 1/2 to 3 hrs on back roads. Again, this is why I love the way they run their regular shows, I can go there with confidence knowing barring something very unusual I'm getting home at a reasonable time while seeing a great show.
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One other thing to remember is that USAC also had to hand out Indiana Sprint week awards since the last night of that was rained out and this is their biggest show of the year. No better time to do that than at intermission while the bmain transfers get ready for the feature and feature cars line up in front of the crowd. I will say as an employee at Kokomo Speedway and helping USAC with their races in the last 4 years it was nice for me to put a face with the name. Drivers switch numbers and cars more often then not throughout the year for whatever reason. I seen a lot of kids very excited including my own to hi five drivers. I've been working at tracks for a long time and I like how the Smackdown is ran in a 3 day show. We run a very quick show on a sun night but with it being a Sat the owners and USAC drivers wanted to give back to the fans by tossing a autographed shirt in the stands. The lucky person who had the feature winner shirt won tickets to Smackdown 3
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