As operating costs continue to increase and attendance and car counts decrease, is it time for the IN tracks that typically run sprint cars to consider adopting a “schedule” along the lines of what is being adopted by the PA Posse? While IN has long been the home of NW sprint car racing, there is no denying that car counts have fallen and purses are stagnant. MAYBE it is time for the tracks to work together to develop a schedule that will not have fans/customers and racers having to choose between racetracks to watch and run sprint cars.

There are only 2 tracks running 410's weekly LPS and Paragon, both on Saturday. If they could solve that problem it would help. You have 6 others(Kokomo, Haubstadt, Terre Haute, Bloomington, Montpeilier and Lawrenceburg) that dont run regularly or just run special shows. For the most part they only cooperate for Sprint Week. I understand its different owners now but if they didnt completely cooperate with each other before KISS fell apart I'm not sure you could get them to do it now. But it would be nice if the tracks announced any races that pay over say 5-6K early in case the others wanted to avoid that date. Anything resembling the deal they are starting in Pa would take a great amount of cooperation and a decent sponsor to pay the point fund ect.

The promoters and sprint car race teams in Indiana have always seemed to sabotage themselves and each other when it comes to cooperation and race payouts. For decades now, it has been a regular occurrence for tracks to refuse to cooperate because “we’re running a business”. When a track or series has scheduled a decent or even well-paying event, there almost always seems to be at least one other track that will schedule against it with a lower paying event. The “budget” race teams then suppprt the lower paying event and in many cases the track paying the significantly lower purse draws more cars than the track paying the larger purse for a special event. That causes promoters to question why would they would take the risk to pay a bigger purse and draw fewer cars than paying pennies and still getting plenty of cars. The result is payouts stay low compared to sprint car races in other areas and race teams continue to race for weekly purses. Weekend racers are a huge part of the sport, but Indiana will remain behind what you see from sprint car teams in other areas like Pennsylvania which race for more money every week and get larger paying events throughout the season. Most tracks stay alive based upon profits they generate from one big event or a few big events on their schedule. Weekly racing isn’t profitable for most tracks, and the lack of support for big events has led to the situation Indiana tracks have now. That’s why some tracks are closed and others have reduced their schedule or gone to special events only. Why open the gates every week just to break even or lose money. If the tracks in Indiana were willing to cooperate on scheduling and the race teams would actually support the larger paying events, it could benefit the tracks and teams in this area to create something like this PA Posse tour on a smaller scale. Bringing back the KISS series would be a good start.

It'd be better if say two tracks worked together one weekend and another two the next. Two races a month. 4 total. Pay a little more and have a bonus for each position if they compete both nights.

Im thinking a Burg and Circle City
Bloomington and Haubstadt
And LPS and Kokomo
Type deal.

Paragon is gonna do what Paragon does.
To boost that. Have Boss and MSTS weekends.

If the car counts there 20+ the fans will as well.

Also Streaming is killing us IMO. If you can't put a hundred mile blackout around each track. At least make it a 5 dollar option to defeat the blackout with all that going to the track

I don't know nothin, Honestly. Gotta give it up for all the tracks and car owners who still try.