Originally Posted by mlamb:
Removal of the tires leads me to believe they're gonna have more and more go cart races. I think this years go cart races are just a trial. I think next year they'll be a full blown go cart track. They'll get more go carts than they get in any division they currently run.
It's not about them saving you axles or race cars....it's about them making money! Hopefully I'm wrong...been wrong a lot before, it's just what I see on the horizon.
Time will tell I guess?
Promoting Kart money races is about like flipping houses. It looks like easy money until one does it. Very few do it well, some almost break even, most lose their arse, and the rest lose everything.
Preparing a "car track" for karts very rarely ever works out. I've been around karting for 25 years and I've only seen it done once and it was Tommy Helfrich who got as close as one can get and if u notice he has not done it since and he had a very packed house that night. Tulsa used to get 500+ kart entries every year and they finally dropped them from the "Shootout". I promise it wasn't because they weren't making money on them.
Now if Bloomington does in fact as u say want to drop the current program in order to adopt a weekly Kart program then that would be a brilliant way to eventually (after a couple years of building up the kart count) earn an astonishing extra $150.00 to $250.00 every week.
I would wager to say that the first kart race at Bloomington will be the last one u ever see there.