For those that missed it on the initial thread that was deleted check out what the following sponsors are doing to support the NCTS on their web sites.
http://www.lilydale.com/?language_id=1
Click on the pic of the race car with the NCTS logo and check out their promotion of the series.
East Side Mario's site has an EVENTS section see what they are doing to promote the series.
http://www.eastsidemariosottawa.com/
Crown Royal has a great site unless your Canadian or follow the NCTS check it out . The first thing you will notice is the pop up that Canadians cannot join the racing promotions part of their site and it is for Americans only , which is very funny since their is on a .ca site . It is strange that of the six series or races they mention NONE are about the NCTS .
Building on what Pinecrest said, and just to keep this on a somewhat constructive level, consider now that you have 3 sites (that Pinecrest has provided), where we can email or send letters and say "hey what's the deal?"
http://www.lilydale.com/_bin/home/contactUs.cfm
http://www.primerestaurants.com/contactus.asp
http://www.crownroyal.ca/ContactUs.htm
I also want to point out...just to keep it in mind...try not to be too "dismissive"
The series is now one race old. It might be a little soon to be asking for miracles!
It is their responsibility to make the event enjoyable for the fans and charging a extra 100 each tire doesn't help the teams with their cost. So what you are saying it is OK for them to take take and take and put nothing back into the into the series? Is that how Nascar was built? So really nothing has changed from the Cascar days but the name then and I guess everyone thinks the name is going to make the series??
I don't think it is a corporate responsibility to support a race series. Those companies promote on TSN because they want to reach a larger market. CTC seems to be the only Canadian company that is interested enough to through money at the series. I think you have to look for companies like Home Hardware and Hortons to find out why they sponsor a race team.
Maybe if enough of "like companies" were identified and good "business" reasons to sponsor a race team were presented to those companies, then some money might come into the sport. At the end of the day, its not up to corporate to support racing in Canada, its up to racing in Canada to make it a good deal for corporate.
Ok here is a few more questions I have and maybe someone can answer them. I don't expect a driver to come on here and tell us as I think the rule is in effect here that they are not to talk about Nascar happenings on here.
What does a average sponsor pay the drivers for the year. Not talking about the big ones like CT, Home Hardware and a couple of others.
When CT or Homehardware win the driver/team gets to keep the purse money? But when a poorly sponsored team gets purse money it pays for the tires, gas, license, insurance, travel, car repairs/parts and other stuff I missed. I don't see how some teams do this as they are at a loss even if they win the race? Am I right or am I missing something.
How did DJ get more then the 4th place driver at Cayuga and he placed 22nd. I know he won the pole but that much money???
23rd paid 890 maybe enough for tires if he changed them.
The payouts in USAR Pro Cup seem to be ok from what people said in the past they have a lot of sponsors and seem to have a good tv package couldn't our series run something like that???
Again I'm not bashing anyone just trying to get a good understanding why our series can't make it but others can make money off our series??
Most of the expenses from the lower sponsored teams come directly from teh owner or drivers pocket. They love racing and know that if they wait for big sponsor dollars they may never get to race. This also hurts the performance on the track because they need to spend all there money just to be there and pay for tires, fuel, licensing, and much more so there is no money left to put into making the equipment top nots such as the big sponsored teams. Even thought some cars look like they have big sponsors and a lot of money backing them it can be just big decails to make the car look full only paying a few thousand dollars. But at then end of the day there not out there to make money because they know that don't happen much in racing but they are out there to RACE and have Fun