I would add that the community absorbs most of the cost of traditional sports. It's nothing for a school district / county to spend millions of dollars on a football field. I've not heard of a community owned race track. I don't believe most tracks would be successful if payouts weren't involved. With that said I was active at a track that everyone was racing for a sticker. It was fun while it lasted but that track is now closed down.
what would you run?
The above “if I ran the race track, Dr Seuss post was meant as a joke
An Amazing Staff still requires an Amazing LEADER to be a success !!
Well…that’s not me…just a guy that raced with my 21 year old son from age 11 to age 19, & had the privilege to help a couple others younger drivers & their dads race & be competitive at all levels….& that was never just all me…it was others willing to honestly answer questions, some that likely became annoying over time
…& give me advice & guidance so I could use that knowledge to try and make things a little better. And I’m still learning…everyday…just ask Rodney Byers lol
The killing of inverted starts really hurt car racing in general. I am old enough to have seen racing go from completely inverted starts in all car racing events to what we have now. It began with store bought cars and people with money but no driving or mechanical ability bringing fast cars to the track and not doing well under the age old format. Complained about how hard it was to pass even with the fastest car at the track blah blah blah. Promotors, with their ability to smell a 20 dollar bill from great distances, caved into these money guys and got away from inverted starts. The quality of racing went downhill along with the number of people in the grandstands. Along came entry fees, parking fees, and general higher track costs to make up the monies the promotor was no longer getting through the grandstand gates. The racers were suddenly making up the difference themselves. The same thinking goes into kart racing. Very little, if any, effort goes into drawing spectators to a kart track, thus killing chances to make some money there. And, if actual racing was going on instead of following the fastest qualifiers lap after lap, we just might have something going on that was worth paying a few bucks to watch. Face it, most kart races are boring under the widely used format tracks use now. And its not nearly as fun to race as in the old days.
Used to be interesting, when the leaders came up on lap karts, watching the driving begin. Past few years, especially in jr classes, if the leader gets tangled with a lap car and spins, he gets his position back. Just qualify well, stay out front, dont have to pass anyone
So no racing lol? I’m not a motor builder but this would literally take out like 99% of all kart racing.
Some tracks in WV do a pill draw after heats, numbered 0 thru whatever, that decides if and/or how many cars are inverted. Makes for exciting racing, and if it’s not exciting racing, no one’s going to want to watch it
