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Originally Posted by Charles Nungester
Yeah and you pay 40 bucks to get in, You going to pay that when you can go to one of four other tracks on saturday night and see as many cars for 13-15 bucks? Hav a tampa still around? How many times the WoO file bankruptcy and bounce checks? Even this year a bunch of tracks cancelled their WoO LM races for some reason. Team, sure they are going to go where the best RoI is. Why beat your equipment at a track paying 800-1400 to win when some series pay that to start.
People come for the format and the car count and the fact that is 7 races in 9 days. The gates reasonable for the quality of competition.
We could talk purses all day but I can show you some early 70s races that paid 12 grand or more to win and the competitors didn't have 7 grand in their entire car. Now some have 70grand not including spares.
The post was about USAC midgets, more specifically pavement midgets. It needs several things. contingency sponsors, a motor that would last 20+ races, Some incentives.
All the series could do with more media and TV exposure. With that comes sponsorship, not the other way around, When you get out to more than 2 or 3 thousand at the tracks, many who are the same people at many tracks. Bigger sponsors aren't going to look twice. If you can put their product in front of a quarter million or more. NOW YOUR TALKING
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I'm not 100% sure but didn't the Thunder Series on ESPN accelerate the cost of pavement racing? When the series moved from the Speedrome to IRP the need for a pavement only car became essential. The one lesson learned from TV is you can't bask in the now you still need to control the cost for the future.