Case in point: This Friday, there are three Modified specials all within a few hours of each other. Limaland Motorsports Park (Lima, OH) is hosting their annual Memorial Cup which pays $1500 to win for the UMP Mods. 150 miles south, Moler Raceway Park (Williamsburg, OH) is having the Cannonball Run for the UMP Modifieds paying $2500 to win. And then, just an hour and a half east of Moler, Jackson County Speedway (Jackson, OH) is their 2nd Annual Modified Mayhem for the AMRA Road Warrior Tour paying $3000 to win.
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| UMP Modifieds go three-wide at Limaland Motorsports Park. |
I mean, am I out of line in thinking this?
Now, in all reality, each track is most likely going to do just fine. And each track will have a strong field of cars. And really, there is very little overlap (if any) among these three tracks.
But the point is, we have got to be aware of our surroundings. We have to know what other tracks are doing. We have to think about the fans and drivers that live in between these tracks - the ones that do make a choice as to where they go.
Scheduling on top of each other hurts everyone. Let's start using our heads - and common sense... and start working together.
Jackson County Speedway's schedule was released on December 29th. You can see when it was published on www.ohiovalleydtr.com
ReplyDeleteGood point like Saturday Eldora had a race for stockcars and Waynesfield had a race for stock cars no points but usually there is about 12 to 17 stocks on a weekly basis at Waynesfield but this past week there was only 7 so what is the point and we have 3 cars are self so we make a impact on where we go.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that sometimes it doesnt matter even if you do try to work with everyone. The reason is that in racing there are to many special interests with money to back certain races just for the simple purpose of hurting car counts etc. As long as we have that influence in our sport, this will continue to happen.
ReplyDeleteWell moler and jackson both arent real good tracks so they can schedule all there races the same day cause they will get the same crowd they always get, a few extras will roll in but besides its all the same, how the economy is 3000 dollars wont pay for my torn up racecar which is usually what u get at these two tracks, my opinion will start a war but oh well people get mad at the facts and well thats the facts!!
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