It floors me that a track wants to charge $15,000.00 to use their facility for three days. Midstate Raceway in Springfield hosted the WKA Heartland Thunder Series on there oval for three years in a row and WKA kept promising them a Gold Cup.
They are a WKA Master Track and use the WKA Master Track Insurance Plan for every single event, not just when WKA shows up once a year.
Every year they said, do this, or do that, and we will get you one next year. We gave up, especially with all the disappearing Leadership people we had dealt with over last 20 years.
Our facility could easily handle the Gold Cup at its current participation levels and even 50% larger with no problem. We have looked at adding another inner loop to reduce the length of our lnog straight and make the track more challenging. It is easliy on the same level as JAX as it sits. And probably over 3000 hotel rooms within 10 minutes of the track.
And I know that our CLUB would not charge a penny for WKA to come. In fact, in the past WKA told YOU/CLUB/TRACK what expenses of WKA's you were responsible for and how much per entry you were going to PAY WKA. The club makes its money on PARKING, PIT PASSES, PRACTICE, and CONCESSIONS.
Before you go to pay MMX $15K......look at all of the available facilities there are that are just as challenging and do not charge F1 or NASCAR pricing to race a simple go kart.