dshort36 you are exactly right!!! I have heard your comments from a lot of owners/drivers....not a good situation...it's bad when you put additional money in the sprint car purse and still not very many teams want to race at your track!!!

SPD 37

Maybe it's because 9th through 20th pays $225. I would think having a $40-$60,000 car would be hard to swallow. The driver usually gets 40% unless he's family or has some deal worked out before hand. You've spent $100-$150 before you ever turn a lap on admissions and fuel.

Maybe, but that's pretty much standard...

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Lawrenceburg Speedway sprint car fields drop in numbers for several more reasons! Big track, high speeds (big wrecks), WALL, Saturday night track (run against Paragon, P-ville, Danville, sometimes Tri-State...seems like L-Burg is better suited to be a specials only race track...the average sprint car team in Indiana can't avoid to hurt their motor, their cars, or their drivers. That's why Eldora doesn't run weekly non-wing sprint car races...

SPD 37

The last 3 weeks of sprint races there have been zero reds, no flips and i believe not any cars destroyed, now tell me how our track tears up more cars than any other track? Our track is the widest track in the state. Yes there is alot of room down lower, but we are not racing around the lightpoles. I pay more money weekly than any other track.
Thanks for all of your support. We also have more big payout show than any other track that i know of.
Dave

With that said, they why do you think your sprint car car counts are low!!

SPD 37

You, sir, read my mind. Bet that didn't take you long. :2:

Mr. Jones and Mr. Hmeil used a lot of the track Saturday night.

Very good question. I believe our car counts have been good, we have a full field each week, and if we have 24 cars we start them all and pay them all start money. The cars we do get are some of the best in the world.
One reason car counts at all tracks are down is because there are 5 tracks racing sprints on Sat. nights. We have made alot of changes this season to accommedate sprints also, such as in the feature we allow tire changes, we up our purse, we are going with a tire rule soon. We have multiple big money shows all season and to continue to do what we do we need support from the sprints. Once again, i am happy with 24 or so cars, the shows we have are top notch with the best racers in the world competing with us. I really believe more teams will open thier eyes up to see what we are doing for the sprints. Like i said in another post, our track has been very smooth and not hardly any cars tore up in multiple weeks, That means alot to a sprint teams if they can come out and race and win money and not destroy thier cars. Don't get me wrong, i'd like to see 40 or more cars show up weekly, but i can live with the caliber of cars we have been getting also.
Thanks, Dave

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The racers make the track what it is to some extent. This past weekend, the cushion ended up lower than normal due to the fact that there was only 3 heats of cars(sprints) that could move the cushion up. If we would of had more sprints or ran modifieds the cushion would of been much higher. I do believe there was a few that saw the light and ran above the cushion, creating a higher cushion. One thing for sure, everyone was lucky to even get to see a race at Lawrenceburg this weekend after the bad week we had here.
Take care, Dave

dave... i have to disagree.. the reason the cushion was so low is not because of only 3 heats of sprints but because you ran the midgets first...we enjoy and support the burg all we can and appreciate your efforts... however would like to see the tires moved down some ,not next to the light poles as there is alot of room, as to make for better and safer racing coming off the turns... don short

I told myself I would never post on one of these things but this I cant avoid. My name is brad stevens and my father and i own a very low buget sprintcar team as many of you may know. For the better part of 9 years we spent racing around the famed lawrenceburg 1/4 mile, in those 9 years we destroyed numerous cars and blew several motors. This kept my seat time to a bare minimum each year of maybe 10 races if we were lucky. The new Lawrenceburg is a little hard on tires and puts a bit more strain on the motors, but the fact that the racing surface is much WIDER than the old 1/4 mile we have been able to avoid those 1/4 mile pile ups. I didnt get to see it first hand because I sort of had my hands full but sounds like jc lj and sh found plenty of room to make it around that narrow 4-5 lane race track. Dave has put far more than his heart and soul in this race track, he has raised the purse for u guys that can afford the motor and tires to win and done just about everything asked of him to make this one of the best tracks in the country. Dave as long as the gates are opened I will be glad to come back week after week trying with what little we have to win a race at the new famed l-burg speedway but till then Im having more fun than ever and learning more every week. With that said maybe we should lay off the L-burg crew and consoul them on the passing of a very close friend and L-burg family member.