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Originally Posted by Seadog
I Don't know what support series you have out West, but in the Midwest we have anywhere from one to five. While they often run the sprint feature first (thank you for that), and you can't get in the pits until all series have run their respective feature. The sprint teams have left by then. So no fan interaction with the sprint drivers and crews. People say to me "Well, then get a pit pass". That may be a good suggestion, unless you have enough trouble scraping the $$$ together for an admission ticket and gasoline, let alone a pit pass.
So what's the answer? I don't know.It's been talked about here many times and the answer seems to be not so easy. It depends on who's doing the asking and who is doing the answering. In a perfect world of the sprint car fan, get rid of the support stuff. The rest will take care of itself. But in the real world, that is not practical.
This IOW site is usually slanted toward the "insiders" point of view and not the fans. The fan almost seems like the red-headed step child around here at times IMO. I think all racing people need to listen to us fans. You need us as much (or more) than we want you.
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this past saturday we ran with the mini sprints, but we run without any support classes on many occations. in my mind, this is how it should be...only two classes per night.
there seems to be a catch 22 though. the promotors want more classes to make more money in the back gate and in turn they loose the fan base. if they would only build up the fan base on one or two classes a night, the promotor will still get his cut and the sport will grow. JMO
MJ