[Chris Uratchko]

Might as well move forward with my point.

It's about payout structure.

When I was winning regularly I was bringing home between 5-6 grand from a race. Runner up was bringing home about 12-1400. Semi's were bringing home a couple hundred, and quarters are getting 50 bucks.

Why does the winner need 6 grand and the lower place get so much less? We could knock that 6 grand in half, so winner gets 3, and spread the other 3 down the line and you will see car count grow.

When one or two guys keeps winning like that, they start pulling away from the field becuase they can advance their program exponentially beyond the guys that are already struggling. Eventually the lower guys just can't hang on anymore and car count drops.

That is the whole deal in a nutshell... seems many are in denial about it. No skin off my back. But there needs to be more 'care' taking of the lower budget guys who are the MAJORITY.... this is why the majority are disappearing, and we're ending up with only the winners hanging on.

Honestly, I'm wasting my time typing. I typed something like this at the Fun Ford site as they are trying to fix their low car counts with rules changes(another mistake) and NOT ONE person responded to my point....

The problem with these orgs is that they ALREADY HAVE IT FIGURED OUT. They know it all and nobody is going to tell them differently. After all, look at their records.

 

[Jimmy Biggs]

Jimmy,

I think a track like Milan proves you wrong that the "check writers" are what drives this sport, look at the crowds and the excitement there....and all this for $1000.00??? The racers and the fans are the people who count, not the Check Writers.

tom cowle

Thats because it is a Local Event......Spectators flock because most of the Racers are Local......This Discussion got side tracked from Adding more Races to an already struggling industry and the "Sponsors" don't want us knocking on their doors for more money when they are looking at weather they want to continue with what they are already doing......They also need to get "Bang for their Buck" which they are not now.......If we were talkin about Expaning the size of a Shopping Mall with 20% Occupency You would say Thats Nuts......so why do we talk about adding more Races to an Low Car Count/Low Fan attended Race Series......As I said before we need to FIRST fill the stands/Pits......Then look at adding Races.....Not the other way......With the way CEO's are feeling.....it just might be the last straw and they pull out completely.......Its an Issue or I wouldn't have gotten 34 EMails/PM's

 

[Tom Cowle's wife]

No, I think its more of a "the spectators want a fun and entertaining event to watch with cars" not an "empty shell of an event that is blown out of proportion and has no cars and costs an arm and a leg to get in".

Both of the Org's need to figure out the 'one day event' and forget this weekend crap, they can rent the second day out to the racers who would want to stay and test.

my humble opinion
tom cowle

 

[Jimmy Biggs]

Bingo