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I would just like to say that I have Never Liked Entry Fees and probably never will... Just another way of getting more from the Back Gate... I am Not Totally sure about the Statement that the Entry Fee goes to USAC... In the past, I believe that the backgate went to the Track, even though USAC collected it... The Track then pays the Total Purse... I believe last year for a regular USAC Sprint Show, such as Sprint Week, The cost was 28 Grand or so... Again, this was last year..
As I have said Before, USAC is at times both the Very Best in the World and often the worse as well...
Anyone who saw the MSCS Race at Terre Haute would have a hard time saying that a USAC show would be better... In Fact, the Best Sprint Car Race I have seen to this Day was the Kiss race a few years back at LPS between Stanbrough and Marvel.... Having said that... The next time USAC comes to your track, make a trip through the parking lot... Check out how many out of town and out of State tags you see... To this Day, often in spite of thereselves, USAC still brings in MORE FANS and I mean OUt of Town FAns... That spells Money, to the Tracks, The Sponsors and the Local Communities...
Can they be beat? Replaced?... Maybe, but at what cost... I have seen what can and probably will replace them.... Not sure it will be Better and I am sure that you will lose Fans... Will the numbers even out cost wise? Maybe, but in the end, you will be saying Goodbye to the All out Racing you have seen for the last 50 years...
The Best Way to deal with USAC for a track, is a few shows a year... Make them Special, Make them Events, if they are, Fans and Drivers will come... If not, well they won;t.... The Cost of Racing, at almost any level has long gone past making sense.... USAC needs to evolve there Shows... Make them more timely. Invoke and Inforce Rules that keep shows rolling... Like a Mandatory Fuel Rule.... If your out, ya can;t race... A weight rule that works, like on the Motor will bring cost down... A wheel rule that elimanates the need for 800 Hp or more... Notice I said a wheel rule and not a tire rule... A one tire rule, and co. has not made things cheeper.... It made that sponsorship to teams go away... If USAC really wanted to cut cost, the number 1 thing is to set rules, simple rules and Let Race Tracks run there own Races... If they don;t abide by the rules, don;t go back... All those USAC shirts just serve to make the local folks mad....
In closing, Good Luck to Brisky and my sympathy. I fully understand your plight.... then again if you can compete with these guys, will you really let 40 bucks keep you away... Look at the rest of the cost first...
I know, I run a lowly Modified series, what do I know? We have Never had Entry Fees and in the last 6 years the WolfPack has paid back well over 25 Grand in Tow Money Alone... Not to mention thousands more in Contengencies and now, well over 200,000 in total purse and point fund money.... With drivers competing from over 10 states and Canada the WolfPack to say it simply, has some of the Very Best Modified Racing in the Nation, period........ and believe me, there is always room for improvement,, and always someone to tell me so.......wanna race........Wolfe-e
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