the Great Cdn used to be a show that was run on a day when other paved tracks were not, bringing in a lot of spectators from other tracks for their once a year visit. Moving it to a Saturday when a majority of the local short tracks are running is puzzling.
Oscaar too is a puzzle-after having 23 and 20 cars at their last two Sunset shows, 13 late models (and 12 mods) showed up last night at Sauble. The fan just doesn't know what to expect any more.
ps-Jason Shaw and his son were at Ohsweken Friday spectating rather than spectating/participating at Delaware. Same with Jeff and Cayden Lapcevich. Maybe that speaks volumes............
the Great Cdn used to be a show that was run on a day when other paved tracks were not, bringing in a lot of spectators from other tracks for their once a year visit. Moving it to a Saturday when a majority of the local short tracks are running is puzzling.
Oscaar too is a puzzle-after having 23 and 20 cars at their last two Sunset shows, 13 late models (and 12 mods) showed up last night at Sauble. The fan just doesn't know what to expect any more.
ps-Jason Shaw and his son were at Ohsweken Friday spectating rather than spectating/participating at Delaware. Same with Jeff and Cayden Lapcevich. Maybe that speaks volumes............
it may speak volumes or maybe not,its tough to leave your back yard and kick butt guys like doerr,jesse,cox, to name a few are hard to beat ,and vice versa its tough to go flammy and beat those guys in there back yard ,so that may be a reason those guys don't travel,and they don't see many delly guys at there place,so maybe they just wanted to watch some dirt racing and spend some time with there boys outside the pits IMO
it just seems that rather than finding an alternate place to race when their home track is off, they'd rather become spectators
And yet as we sit here and talk of car count struggles, Ohsweken, Merritville and Humberstone have upwards of 50 cars per class, eliminations and last chance races every night, and (for the most part) packed grand stands. And if you listen to the roll call on the pace laps, they are from EVERYWHERE--in Sprint cars they come from all over the northeast, including several states. Even in the Thunder cars,
Why not look to the dirt tracks for answers? WHAT are they doing differently? And sorry I don't buy the "dirt racing's just better" argument that I'm sure an Ohsweken troll is about to respond with. Racing is racing, if it's close and exciting it doesn't matter what surface it's on.
So what, about the racing package, is better at the dirt tracks? We know they have identical rules packages for for every single touring class (LMs, LLMs, Modifieds, Midgets, 360 Sprints, 305 Sprints, 410 Sprints, etc etc)... That most certainly helps draw in teams from elsewhere. We also know they alternate nights, which helps too.
But it must go further... Are the tires much longer lasting, and therefore cheaper, in the lower classes? There's inherently less wrecking and therefore less repair/rebuild to be done in general. The 4 cylinder classes are GIGANTIC, so they must have something in the rules that makes it more worthwhile to race in that class than elsewhere...
What else is there? I can't imagine the payouts are much better, at least not for the small classes. Do they offer haul money?
The cost of racing on dirt is a lot less. We can still run tires that we bought in 2010. If you don't get in a wreck or blow up the week to week costs are much lower. The first year we ran mini stock at Ohsweken the biggest weekly cost was fuel for the tow rig! Watch the videos from Ohsweken, in every class you will see 3 and 4 wide in the turns and battles from the lead all the way back to the tail enders. That's one of the things I love about dirt if your filling the line on the bottom I can go to the top or middle or where ever I find some grip and make a run at you, no bump and run needed just drive by you. There is always someone to battle with, be it for the lead or the last transfer spot from the consi. Also watch how the show goes off at the "BigO" very little dead time for the fans once hot laps start the program runs like a clock. Checkered falls you exit at turn 2 as the next race pulls on the track at turn 3 and gets the 1 to go flag, next time by it's green flag. 10:30 loaded and on the way home some nights. Sorry my post wondered a little (gotta get off midnights) but I'm sure you get the idea.
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