Ok, seems you guys need ideas for RACECARS...
1) Barrie Vs Sunset night(s)
Sunset runs a Sunday instead of Saterday. Lots of notice is given, and it promoted at both tracks. On the Sunday, Barrie cars come to sunset. Each class is lined up in reverse order to their points standing. Alternating sunset and barrie cars.
All points are recorded and totaled all night for both tracks. Fans are given a running score of which track is leading in the points.
Week after its the rematch. Sunset runs sat as ussual, Sunday only for Barrie, with the sunset cars coming to Barrie.
2) LLM vs thunders (or thunders vs mini ect ect)
Do the math and find out how many laps based on time it would take a LLM to run down a thunder. Give the thunders whatever head start is required, so the LLMs should catch them with 2 laps to go..... Works for all the classes. Mix them up do one a night, and you have an extra race for almost the whole year.
3) King of the Hill for 1 million dollars (you can find an insurace company that will sell you coverage for the prize) with a catch.....
The driver has to be the fastest king of the hill driver. But to win the million, they must go up agaist and beat a LLM (or whatever class car would be close in speed yet unbeatable)
4) Swap a car race....
Find a mid pack Thunder or mini driver, who would be willing to let Walters drive it for a race.....
5) Invitational Driver night
Get a NCTS driver to come to the track, and find an LLM team that will let him run their car....
6) elmination race
Standing start, reverse order to points. 2 car lengths between cars. Last car to cross the line each lap is elminated...
7) Pit stop race
Add a pit stop to any race, where one tire has to be changed.
8) Twin 25's, 15's whatever...
reverse the order after the 1st race.
You really don't need the dog and pony to sell a race, you have your cars...
Ross all of these are really cool ideas...perhaps they can be used at other tracks too not just Barrie and Sunset?
Ross all of these are really cool ideas...perhaps they can be used at other tracks too not just Barrie and Sunset?
Tottally.. I'm not even from those tracks. I was just using it as an example, because the tracks are close, and the setup for the cars are close..
Us Kawartha guy could come down to sunset and clear your guys clock... Some good friendly rivalry.. 😉
You hear the fans here asking all the time "What cars are going to show up for the Wednesday night at X or the invitation at Y". They want to see their drivers up agaist another tracks drivers. Why not promote that? Have the Kawartha fans show up for the Friday show, then also come out on Saterday to see how Ryens compairs to the Sunset guys... Thats one race fan filling 2 seats on one weekend....
Goes back to even the idea of the Sunday no points inviational. But takes it a step further. Track pride is on the line. So you have a bit of a reason to risk your car, without points racing...
CCS and Kawartha have been doing that a bit with the lates. I think it could be promoted a bit more and made a FRIENDLY us vs them competion...
Those ideas are good and fine, but go down to Lake Erie (the textbook example of how a track should be run in this area) and ask what drew better, their Late Model 150 or their 'Night of Fire'? Given the right circumstances, there's tracks that manage to do both sucessfully (look up Langley Speedway and their "Wednesday Night Wackyness") Your ideas *might* appease the die-hards and bring more of them out (from my experiences the so-called die-hards find ways of not going to things under claims of racing seriousness) but in a sport where new blood needs to be found (in the seats and in the pits) things like this work to do so. It shouldn't replace the actual racing, but if it's getting people out to see the regular classes and making them into weekly attendees, isn't it a success?
even the winner of the 2007 Short Track In North America Award Thompson Speedway devotes an entire night every year to monster trucks, stunt drivers and demo derbies. And they PACK the place....