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Originally Posted by Kirk Spridgeon
Silver Crown race was too expensive for Terre Haute. They lost too much money.
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Kirk,
That makes no sense to me? That was, by far, the biggest crowd that I have seen there in years (not counting any Outlaw shows, I didn't see any of those)!! If they could not make money with that crowd... Well that's... To put it lightly... Goofy!!??? How many more people would they have needed??
Someone once blamed the back gate. If you added 10 more cars to last years race, that would be maybe 60 more paid pit passes. If that makes that much difference, I'll say it again.. Goofy! :thumbsdown:
I would also have to assume that the purse had come down from years past??? While not 100% on this, by what we got paid, I am assuming it came down. I am not sure if it was 1999 or 2000, we finished 16th and got paid $1,000. This year finished 12th, and received $825.
If you have some different information on this, I would love to read it!