Originally Posted by Bobcat47:
Since Belleville has come back on the tour, its Silver Crown race has been on par with the WoO races there in the 2010s. The Hutchinson, Kansas race last year, featured the largest crowd at that facility in 40 years. Both had crowds which were 70-90% of capacity. I think this shows that the Silver Crown division is still viable and there are venues out there where the big cars can go and be successful.
So, what other tracks / venues are you suggesting that can put on races and be successful? And most of all be profitable for the tracks and race teams. You'd think we'd have seen these tracks added to the SC schedule by now, over the last few years.
Originally Posted by jdull99:
How about a $50,000 to win / $8000 to start, race sponsored by FLO? Any track, anywhere.
The real question is where is the Flo money for any USAC division? Seems to improve the purse for others. Is Flo racing and HL one and the same with just different names?
Originally Posted by jdull99:
How about a $50,000 to win / $8000 to start, race sponsored by FLO? Any track, anywhere.
Why would Flo produce this show when any $10,000 to win Lucas Oil Late Model or $10,000 to win High Limit show would have better viewership ratings that the SC show?
I still go back to the fact that no one else is trying to run this class of cars. We have sanctioning groups and outlaw promoters that will sanction anything and will race anything but yet both groups stay away from this class of cars.
Playboy Magazine, Blockbusters and Sears are all Historic names. It takes more than a historic name to survive.
And if weather cooperates, you'll see a good crowd that day
Originally Posted by Jonr:
Why would Flo produce this show when any $10,000 to win Lucas Oil Late Model or $10,000 to win High Limit show would have better viewership ratings that the SC show?
I still go back to the fact that no one else is trying to run this class of cars. We have sanctioning groups and outlaw promoters that will sanction anything and will race anything but yet both groups stay away from this class of cars.
Playboy Magazine, Blockbusters and Sears are all Historic names. It takes more than a historic name to survive.
Originally Posted by Jonr:
Why would Flo produce this show when any $10,000 to win Lucas Oil Late Model or $10,000 to win High Limit show would have better viewership ratings that the SC show?
I still go back to the fact that no one else is trying to run this class of cars. We have sanctioning groups and outlaw promoters that will sanction anything and will race anything but yet both groups stay away from this class of cars.
Playboy Magazine, Blockbusters and Sears are all Historic names. It takes more than a historic name to survive.
I mean tell me if I'm wrong, but didn't every dirt race last year have cars that DNQ'd?
Actually, I feel like the press releases said more than one race last year had it's biggest field in twenty years.
Leave it to IOW to advocate pulling the plug on a series that's seeing a resurgence.
Originally Posted by kendirt:
I mean tell me if I'm wrong, but didn't every dirt race last year have cars that DNQ'd?.....
Most dirt races did have more than 24 cars, but not all. Only 19 were at Salt City last year. The pavement side was much worse. Only once did they have a full field of 24 cars, and four events did not make it out of the teens with Madison being the smallest at 15 cars.
Originally Posted by racefan20:
Drivers went from making less on their merch than they were driving the car to making millions on merch alone. Before think about "giving him a chance" you need to do a little research.
So you researched that he ran merch sales for the most popular driver in NASCAR. Theresa was the one to teach Dale to trademark his signature. This guy sold lots of tees with that on it. I would not say that translates into the Usac guys becoming more financially fortunate. If marketing is this guys strong suit then hopefully he is successful in bringing more money to these guys. My independent research shows that the top 3 Usac divisions do not run for enough money. So I in turn will “give him a chance” to prove me wrong.
