Originally Posted by Dues:
In my opinion, this is one of the most fun "big event" races in the area. The smackdown has an awesome atmosphere & energy all weekend long. Being a local driver myself, I agree with the idea of other tracks not scheduling against large events like this IF usac/kokomo would make it worth it for local guys to come. I think if they want to get everyone behind a big event like this they need to do a similar pay structure to Knoxville's Corn Belt nationals.
Knoxville - $600 just to start the B-main
Kokomo - $150 for all non transfers
If the smackdown made it worth the local guys to show up, I would 100% support all tracks not scheduling against it. Until then I understand why they still do. Just my 2 cents but I think they are happy with current car counts and feel no need to make this change but think this could be an even larger event if they wanted it to.
I understand where you’re coming from as I was a very low buck local racer for years but the difference is a large percentage of smack down cars come from Indiana whereas Knoxville has an equally large percentage of cars that come from outside Iowa.