Originally Posted by Charles Nungester:
Actually the very first midget week race was at the OLD burg on a monday night and it was attended by less than tonight.
I was there and wondered where the crowd was
John Hoover
“To whom little is not enough, nothing is enough.” Epicurus
Originally Posted by Rpracing1:
Still surprised that as a big metropolitan area that it is that’s all of the Midget people that cared enough to even show up?
Assuming a Late Model show would have filled the stands regardless of weather forecast .
Central and Southern Ohio is Late Model country as well as KY, had been long before I got to OH in the early nineties from central PA. My first 10 years here I was working a job I never got off for weekends or holidays so I never saw much racing but once I changed careers I started going and Late Models is what it was. Considering how much I hated Late Models as a kid growing up in PA during the eighties I quickly grew to love them all though there is a soft part in my heart for Winged Sprints which outside of KC/Atomic was mostly northern OH.
I really have grown to like wingless racing better (both midgets and sprints) thanks to some influences that beat into my head back in my heavy racing days that wingless was the answer to the ballooning costs of winged sprint racing where a smaller budget team can be competitive. That influence has since those days has been made to look mostly correct on that, they also used to go on and on about funfest at Lawrenceburg which I never had the chance to go to. I would of loved to go last night but mid week shows can be hard for me, I try to save those for the sprint speedweek (had a blast last year) all though midgets are a lot of fun and that was a great race last night.
I feel really bad for the promoter and I hope they got some money from FLO but this also showed me that is the weather is iffy for a weekend show everywhere and I wanted to gamble on one track to travel too (about 2 hours for me) this would be one of them.
Streaming is not the issue...not even a little bit. Was at the HL show, packed, and it was on Flo. There is a larger issue at play here and nobody wants to admit it, and it has nothing to do with rain, Flo, fans, promotor, drivers, teams....
Originally Posted by nodramazone20:
Streaming is not the issue...not even a little bit. Was at the HL show, packed, and it was on Flo. There is a larger issue at play here and nobody wants to admit it, and it has nothing to do with rain, Flo, fans, promotor, drivers, teams....
Do tell ole wise one!
Mike
Be nice to people on the way up. You might need them on the way down. Jimmy Durante
The promotor did what “ real” promotors do. He ran the show ( quickly I might add) knowing in advance rain was in the forecast. He did not cancel the day before or days before as has become the norm for race promotors. Knowing the promotor will do all he can to run the event should have lasting effects for fans, car owners, drivers, etc.
Remember rain was in the forecast all day, and it was a Tuesday night, and it was on FLO.
The ‘burg has almost always been a Saturday night track. Tried some Wednesday night late model races back in the day. Did not work. Ran a Friday night WoO race in ‘78 or ‘79 and broke even. The fact that they ran the show against all odds shows their determination to get the show in if possible.
