Originally Posted by Jonr:
Once again, there is no conspiracy on why there is not dirt track racing on TV. It is not USAC's fault, or the WOO's fault, or ESPN's fault. It is a case of money. If there was money to be made putting dirt track racking on TV, everyone would be doing it. TV execs are just like race promoters. They want to have a product that is going to be profitable.
The one exception to the rule is MAVtv which for all intent and purposes in just a glorified infomercial for Lucas Oil Products.
Finally, we all have illusions of grandeur of watching Thursday Night Thunder. It was some great TV for us race fans. The other thing that it had was excitement. Watching a tape delay of a race that happened a month ago has very little excitement. I find most of the tape delay races hard to watch because there is no excitement. If it is hard for a die hard fan to get excited about a race, how do we expect it to hook in a casual fan.
Wow, just wow.
