Last night made me realize something, There are very few Events that both the drivers have to be there even if they don't really have a great shot at winning. That the fans won't miss.

I mean there is sprintweek which IMHO is great, a lot of racing in a short time. However its basic USAC shows that are a better format of most tracks weekly shows. Qualifying and Inversion 5 laps more.

Hut Hundred and couple MSCS big shows.

Last night even if the racing wasn't great I though was near event status. Some tweeks to the format and Voila.

I also thought the two night LBurg nationals 2009 was eventish to me even two completely different formats.

Is it just a Safe bet to schedule USAC or MSCS and not try something different? I've even seen track events designed to keep out bigger teams which IMHO takes the Event status out of it.

Whats your thoughts? I know its the Promotors Risk but I've seen some creative ones that were huge successes over the years. Some of them Cheapened by the Sanctioning bodies that later took over.

IMHO it was a huge plus to the Knox Nationals to ditch WOO sanction and run THERE PROGRAM.

Im just saying, Wheres the 40-50 lappers. 10-20 to wins. Three plus consis in which a Haud or Wolfgang comes through four of them to make a top five A making a total show by himself? Something thats talked about for years?

Don't get me wrong, Theres great racing going on, We need a couple of Events though. I was one of them who liked the three day format of the four crown. To me last year it was two separate shows, cheapened by putting two classes qualifying on another show. One show was pretty good, the other. Meh.

I agree. Last night on my way home I kept thinking that tcrp could have something GREAT. I mean, 48 cars in the pits, pretty much the first sprint race locally. Big crowd. I'd they could just tweak a few things. I thought the format was ok, something sort of unique. My biggest beef is not even starting the sprint feature until what, 1145? If you're going to have an event to pull more than your local crowd, you really need to move the show along so people who drive 2-3 hours can hit the road by 11 and see the whole show. Just my opinion.
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The Gold Crown Nationals at Granite City (OK, OK, Pontoon Beach) are without a doubt an event. The fact that they have nonwing sprints all three nights this year just adds to the stature. This is a must-see show.

I agree completely about the staring time of the feature
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I totally agree! That was the best racing I saw all year!

When Belleville was a three night show, with good car counts, it was an event. When they cut it to two nights, it became event "lite." And now, USAC, in all its infinite wisdom, has scheduled a national sprint show at Eagle Raceway on the Friday night of Belleville. So where will the top USAC teams be? Without the USAC entries, I'm afraid that Belleville can no longer be called an event lite, much less an event.

Bob Nikkel

I disagree, long before USAC came along Belleville was an event.The only problem this year was USAC scheduled against it. The other problem is that years ago you could make some cash with a midget, not anymore.That game is waaaaay to expensive expect any return on your investment.

The ASCoC Front Row Challenge and the USAC Non-Wing Ultimate Challenges in Oskaloosa, IA. August 8th and 9th are events! $10,000 to win to win Monday and $15,000 to win the USAC race on Tuesday. Lot's of giveaways, Drivers foot race, card girls and on and on. You never know what you will see at Osky!

I also miss "events". They've screwed around with dates and start times and track prep so much, most races that use to be events have either been greatly diminished or died off completely. Four Crown, Hoosier Hundred, Hut Hundred, Night Before 500, Angell Park Pepsi nationals, Springfield 100, DuQuoin 100. None of these races seem as prestigious as they use to be, either due to lack of car count or poor track conditions or dates changed. They ruined the Indy Fairgrounds with all the sand added to the surface. They ruined IRP when NASCAR re-graded the banking. Badger midgets hardly have any cars left. The mile dirt tracks all have ****** track prep and low car counts. Gerry Olsen promoted the 3 day non-wing sprint car nationals at Terre Haute that drew all the california guys along with Haud and Kerr. It had a 40 lap finale (no red for fuel), that paid $17,000 to win. After 3 years of not enough fan support it died. I thought i'd died and went to heaven at that event but I guess there weren't enough others like me. Eldora has done their best to ruin the 4 Crown, which isn't even a 4 Crown any more and everyone knows it. It takes an awful lot for me to boycott a track because I hate to see them close, but after the dust-out last year, the way they've ruined the 4 Crown, and the fact they've paired down the usac races to just 2 weekends, I and the rest of my family haved vowed not to return to Eldora until things change. Oskaloosa's Ultimate Challenge, one of the few remaining "events", only had 29 cars sign in for $15,000 to win last year. That...is the sign of the times. Too expensive to justify anymore. No promoter in their right mind is going to try to create a high paying event in these times. It's a real shame because I can remember much better times. Memorial weekend we'd go to the Hulman Hundred Fri. night and see 50 dirt champs runnin on a heavy cushion up by the wall. Then, Saturday we'd got to IRP for 50 plus midgets runnin in a freight train up by the wall with slide jobs happening all over the place. Then, drive 85mph down to Putnamville to catch the B & A-main. They'd have 30 cars. Sunday, we'd listen to the 500 on the radio on our way to the Memorial 50 for Badger midgets at Angell Park. They always had over 40 cars back then. Now that was an event!!!!!!!