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Topic: Knoxville Raceway Hosts Eleven FVP National Sprint League Shows in 2016!
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October 15, 2015 at
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As long as they dont hurt local drivers with all the decisions thay are making to try to deal with Badlands. Pissing matches suck and this one will keep us entertained in the off season. Grab a frosty and watch the chess match.
I tell it like I see it.
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October 15, 2015 at
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Let me get this straight... I keep hearing everyone say you are still racing for the same purse you were last year and the year before... I also hear all the fans bitching about the ticket prices going up to pay for all these big travelers coming to town... When was the last time any of you went to the parts shop and picked up some parts? Dropped by one of the major motor builders to pick up your motor? The cost go up every year. So every year the purse doesn't go up the local racer falls further and further behind. If ticket prices are going to go up to support travlers it should go up for everyone. When the majority of the local racers quit because they cant keep up with the cost it's going to get aweful boring watching those 15 mega hualers race against each other. That's my two cents.
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October 16, 2015 at
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Posted By: madman9900 on October 15 2015 at 09:02:24 AM
If you made told you were going to make x amount of dollars a year at a new job but then we're told that if you miss just one day of work you salary would be reduced by up to 40% with no way of earning it back, what would you think. On the surface it seems like a heck of an incentive to go to work everyday, but stuff happens that's out of your control sometimes and you miss a day. It's been said in this thread enough that a lot of the teams are not blessed with enough budget to make a commitment like this. I think you will see a few more teams out there trying to stick with it as long as the equipment holds out, but once you've missed one event the incentive is gone. I think they should of added to the tow money and made the participation percentage to get the tow money 85-90% so you would have had a cushion in case something happened and you had to miss a race. This also would have not made the local guys feel like they a second class citizens running for a lesser purse. Raise the tow money to $600-$700 bucks and add $100-$150 start money and then everybody would have been happy.
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So say you are going to get X ammount at your job (per day) wether you show up 1 day or 39 days regardless of your work ethic, attitude, ammout of bitching and complaining you do, ect...WITH NO PENALTY! BUT, if you are in a situation that you can make 40%more if you show up for all 40 days of work, plus if you make all 40 days you will make a cash bonus at the end.
You guys do realize that this is racing, a competitive sport. competitive sports reward the participants that are at the top of what they do. The low guy on the totem pole makes less than 2% of what the highest paid guys make, if you want to cut the pie that way pay these guys $100 to start and thank them twice for coming.
Sometimes we need to look at the situation and be thankfull for what people are putting into this sport for everyone rather than ME ME ME!
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October 16, 2015 at
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Posted By: Hootus6D on October 15 2015 at 10:34:55 PM
Let me get this straight... I keep hearing everyone say you are still racing for the same purse you were last year and the year before... I also hear all the fans bitching about the ticket prices going up to pay for all these big travelers coming to town... When was the last time any of you went to the parts shop and picked up some parts? Dropped by one of the major motor builders to pick up your motor? The cost go up every year. So every year the purse doesn't go up the local racer falls further and further behind. If ticket prices are going to go up to support travlers it should go up for everyone. When the majority of the local racers quit because they cant keep up with the cost it's going to get aweful boring watching those 15 mega hualers race against each other. That's my two cents.
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Weekly dirt track racing is supported primarily by blue collar people who bring the wife and kids. I know this is hard to understand for us hardcore folks on this board but a good portion of the fans are not hard core and have other choices. If the price point for weekly racing escaltes too much in order to attract the "big names" many of those fans are likely to chose other options for their Saturday night entertainment. We're not talking LA or NYC here, dirt track fans are the salt of the earth, great people, but as someone who has chased this madness since 1960 I can truthfully say I haven't seen many limos in the parking lot. 
Stan Meissner
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October 16, 2015 at
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Posted By: StanM on October 16 2015 at 05:45:21 PM
Weekly dirt track racing is supported primarily by blue collar people who bring the wife and kids. I know this is hard to understand for us hardcore folks on this board but a good portion of the fans are not hard core and have other choices. If the price point for weekly racing escaltes too much in order to attract the "big names" many of those fans are likely to chose other options for their Saturday night entertainment. We're not talking LA or NYC here, dirt track fans are the salt of the earth, great people, but as someone who has chased this madness since 1960 I can truthfully say I haven't seen many limos in the parking lot.
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I have seen plenty quarter million dollar haulers and motorhomes though!
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October 17, 2015 at
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Just a question/comment. With all the talk about Husets moving to Saturday night has anyone considered or even mentioned that maybe the reason for the move is not to promote racing but to kill it off in the Sioux Falls area. Sounds like chunk brennan makes more money in concerts, beside his payday loans, and maybe just figures if there are no races he can do more concerts, no track lighting, no track maintence, no track personnel all adds up.
Hell concert goers will gladly pay more the $20 a seat.
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October 17, 2015 at
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I never thought I would see the day when "fans" turn against someone running a weekly sprint car race regardless of it's proximity to another track. PA makes it work.
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October 17, 2015 at
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Posted By: team1hd on October 16 2015 at 08:19:16 PM
I have seen plenty quarter million dollar haulers and motorhomes though!
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So have I but that couple hundred or so people with those kinds of bucks aren't going to fill the stands week in and week out. As far as the haulers go, it's a given that the top teams have some bucks to work with but that wasn't what the discussion was about. The vast majority of the crowd at a typical night of racing at tracks in the upper Midwest are blue collar. That has been my experience since 1960.
Stan Meissner
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October 17, 2015 at
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Posted By: Fireman on October 17 2015 at 11:48:39 AM
Just a question/comment. With all the talk about Husets moving to Saturday night has anyone considered or even mentioned that maybe the reason for the move is not to promote racing but to kill it off in the Sioux Falls area. Sounds like chunk brennan makes more money in concerts, beside his payday loans, and maybe just figures if there are no races he can do more concerts, no track lighting, no track maintence, no track personnel all adds up.
Hell concert goers will gladly pay more the $20 a seat.
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That thought crossed at least one other person's mind right from the get go.
Stan Meissner
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