After Mel tells drivers they could sell shirts all year, behind the grandstands at his track, he comes back the second week and says drivers selling shirts the first week "KILLED" business in his I-69 souvenir shop. He even waited until everything was set up THEN came over and had them take everything down! He also stopped USAC from selling anything that was driver related in their trailer. For the life of me I can't understand why a track will not set up areas to HELP drivers sell their shirts. They say you can sell in the pits but most people don't go into the pits. Drivers put on your show and make very little money doing it and shirt sales is just one little thing that helps their expenses.
The driver I know bought extra shirts and hats thinking he would be able to sell there all year long only to be told one week later NO. It means so much to drivers, in many ways, when a shirt is sold and worn on race day.
What started out as a positive situation has been overtaken by GREED. If a couple hundred dollars makes or breaks this promoter then I will have to agree with another post that this place is in trouble. SAD