I guess Dave and John's friendship doesn't go back as far as Dave thought.That line always stuck in my head .
or their friendship was strong enough to see a date in 08 might not be a win-win.
I guess Dave and John's friendship doesn't go back as far as Dave thought.That line always stuck in my head .
+1
quote from the flamboro website
Flamboro Speedway was repeatedly approached by the traveling racing group who were looking for a date at Hamilton's 1/3 mile asphalt oval, but speedway management consistently declined. There will be no OSS race at Flamboro Speedway in 2008.
quote from OSS website
Flamboro Speedway will not be part of the Ontario Sportsman Series Schedule this season. The reason cited as differences in expectations between the Series and the Speedway. "Although we had an agreement in place - we felt it best that we remove the date from our 2008 schedule"
You've got to admit that there is a little bit of humour here!
before there is any track bashing I will step in. You can have your opinion on a track. But coming out and saying the track blows is not a great way of expressing yourself.
Canadian Racing has to change and track owners have to get better shows and maybe traveling series is not the direction they want to go. With tracks having their local series they know what the show is going to be like and how many teams will show up to the events.
I'm not sure traveling series have the backing to prove to tracks that they can put on a great show with consistant car counts. I think the only series that can do this is NCATS. I'm not talking about out west or US series in this as I'm not up to date on a lot of series.
Running a traveling series takes a lot of backing from sponsors and drivers must have sponsors to travel to different tracks. To be honest how much longer would have CASCAR survived if NASCAR didn't buy them out? The car counts weren't going up.
I like local shows and I know a lot of others do as they don't have to travel to keep up with a series and if they want they can see racing almost every weekend at there local track.
I don't live close to to many tracks so I don't mind the traveling to different tracks but if I had a close track to my place I would attend more races.
Evan I would have to disagree with your statement, I think there are viable travelling series in Ontario, and they have some support from Lucas Oil, who does great work supporting grass roots racing series. Some people may not like the Canadian Vintage Modifieds or the Can Am Midgets, but they are both travelling series that usually get a decent car count for the fans. Also both of these organizations have close to 40 years of history.
And Evan you have to get yourself up to Barrie this season.
I don't know all the series out their but lucas does sponsor series well. I have never seen either one of these series. how many different tracks do each series goto?
I will do my best to get up to Barrie.
Evan I would have to disagree with your statement, I think there are viable travelling series in Ontario, and they have some support from Lucas Oil, who does great work supporting grass roots racing series. Some people may not like the Canadian Vintage Modifieds or the Can Am Midgets, but they are both travelling series that usually get a decent car count for the fans. Also both of these organizations have close to 40 years of history.
And Evan you have to get yourself up to Barrie this season.
I have never seen either one of these series.
Some people may not like the Canadian Vintage Modifieds or the Can Am Midgets, but they are both travelling series that usually get a decent car count for the fans.
Evan, if you have never seen the CVM's then you have to see them. 😉
I grew up watching them, when they raced at Flamboro weekly, they were just called hobby cars back then, then later when Carling's sponsored them "the Red Cap Racer's". With the likes of Harry Nicholson, Freddy Poets, and Billy Lyons racing the features, it was every bit as exciting as the SLM's back then! Even back then and to this day, I'd say most of these cars should be in a show room instead of turning left. Back then a lot of the guys were running flat head V8's, but they had starting to switch over to inline 6's.