I've defended qcr as much as anyone on this board... I also spent the winter rebuilding my car... And the reason why I didn't run it yesterday, was because I thought it was a nostalgic race. They never advertised no box, or gamblers, or anything. Inanother life, I crewed on one of the cars that was in the show, and I've been witness to dozens of nostalgia events
So... I went to watch because I was at a couple of the marrion races, and it was an awesome show.
But, unfortunately, as a spectator I can only describe yesterday as dissapointing.
I was frustrated all day by the way things were not happening. They started late, didn't follow any sort of schedule, and everything just ran like a clusterfuck.. I was actually ready to pack up and come home. If I hadn't been drinking, I would have. The weather was perfect, breakage was few and far between, given the type of cars they had. The finals took 45 minutes... For 4 pairs of bracket/umtr cars.
Call it bashing if you want, but its the truth. I want qcr to thrive, but from what I witnessed yesterday, they don't know what they are doing. They seem to have a "if you don't like it, go elsewhere" attitude, that has to go. As a racer ill always come back. As a spectator, which this was a show car event ment to make money from spectators, I don't think I would, and I love watching nostalgic racing. There were a number of people there expressing the same feelings.