Originally Posted by mod16d:
The fact they got it in was amazing, only the original T. H .A. T. promoters (the late Mr. Hopton et al) would have tried as hard. People on here ***** and moan that they we "held hostage by the promoter" or that they had to sell "one more beer or hot dog" THEY GOT IT IN DIDN'T THEY? The fact of the matter is they could have said at 2pm it's over and you would have bithed that they quit to soon, instead it ran OVER CURFEW, and you ***** because you were there to long. If you want a timed event go to a football or basketball game. I'm going to start going to more dirt late model show, the fans there are, for the most part, to stupid or drunk to ***** about seeing a race they actually paid to see.
Seeing as how you reside in Terre Haute, You didn't have to drive 4hr or more then sit thru another four hours of rain delay without a decision, Then getting home at five am.
Maybe you worked saturday getting up at five, heard they were still running and got home at two am. Hostage doesn't always mean they are doing something wrong. Just not going as planned.
Take a kid to something like that, Try to make church after something like that, Your view might be different.
Im not making any comment here if it was right or wrong to run or cancel, Just stating there are many different ways to see what at happened saturdays race.
YMMV Ive seen both good and bad from those who went.
We drink ding-a-ling beer and eat barbequed groundhog.
Them late model racers ain't got nothin on us edumacated openwheelers.
. There is nothing worse than having your customers feel as though they are being held hostage waiting for what they paid & came to see. 
So until, someone truly takes this track operations and surface back to the potential it really has, I will continue to spend my hard earned money at other tracks, still supporting this sport I love. I know that fine race track is still buried in there somewhere. It will take the right promoters to bring it out and return THAT to it's historic greatness.
