When Mike and Judy ran the show, employees from the race track would come to the neighborhood just to the North (aka Snootyville) and hand out free tickets to a race. Personally I thought it was a show of goodwill and community partnership. I know there are plenty of others outside this neighborhood who complain, but I thought it was a show of good faith. Might have even prevented some complaints.
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Originally Posted by wildman92:
When Mike and Judy ran the show, employees from the race track would come to the neighborhood just to the North (aka Snootyville) and hand out free tickets to a race. Personally I thought it was a show of goodwill and community partnership. I know there are plenty of others outside this neighborhood who complain, but I thought it was a show of good faith. Might have even prevented some complaints.
Quite possibly the worst race I’ve ever seen. One groove on the bottom. Hardly a pass in the feature and no one got lapped. Train city - boring as can be. What a shame for such a big race too.
Never seen a track so locked down that not even 1 car got lapped. Great crowd, great atmosphere and great seeing some folks I haven’t seen in awhile. Just a shame that such a meaningful race was ruined. Can’t win them all I guess. Unbelievable, can’t make this up.
Those heats teased us to such heights that I thought this would be a feature that would be talked about for some time. Unfortunately lots of divisions and lots of cars burning lots of rubber. I was trying to decide between irp and Bloomington…. I was like asphalt is just the bottom….I’m gonna go watch some sliders. Wow was I wrong. And one more gripe… that food line was just out of control wasn’t it?
Although I've seen a ton of great races put on by this track operator, this was by no means one of them. Those guys are right. Not only was this one bad, it was historically bad. Maybe the worst race I've seen since I went to Banker's Life Fieldhouse (I think that's what they were still calling it, then), when someone thought it would be a good idea to run a midget race in a space that was designed to play basketball games on. At one point, when the die had been cast on how this race would turn out, I turned my attention to watching the audience, from my vantage point, standing behind the rail at the top of the stands. In unison, they were almost completely motionless. Except for a few children, who were playing with their glow-in-the-dark stick thingies.
I had a good night at the track, though. All the ceremonies for Josh and Darlene were great. It's always a treat to hear Josh's buddy to the National Anthem in his very cool and unique way. The crowd was enormous. And I got to see and talk to a lot of people I like. And come feature time, if anything, it was a good people watching experience. Just not a Race of the Year candidate, by any means.
Jerry
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
