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Whos going to win? I'll say I think brent marks wins but I'm hoping for DD or Justin Peck

I hope they get it in. Weather forecast looks terrible. 

Looks like the Night Before 30 is as close as they're gonna get without a weather miracle.

In 2018 the original Fifty rained out and they rescheduled it for October 28th when the Outlaws were in town.     This year WoO visits Port on Oct 6th and 7th.    

And it was more than worth the trip, as always 

Brown's track record was set that day too.

Now $ 60,000 to win.

It will more than likely be in October Again. The forecast is not good for Sunday. No matter what they said tonight the Allstars have packed up and left so I would guess that the decision has already been made.

Oh well, I will be watching then

Question for the Port homers..Is this the first year that the entire bleachers were reserved seating only? Didn't they used to leave the bottom ten rows for GA?

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Yeah I'm pretty sure this is the first year the entire bleachers were reserved. I'm not a fan of that.

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Port Royal Speedway in a way didn't have any choice but to make the whole grandstand reserved for the Tuscarora 50.

The track, in my opinion,  has backed themselves into a corner .  It seems most of the  new "old " grandstand  and alot of the new grandstand is season reserved seats.  The choice was either make all the remaining seats general admission  or do what they did with all reserved.   If it was just general admission I think it would have been a crazy madhouse trying to get seats on Saturday. 

It might be time for Port to rethink their season reserved seat policy.  I went to the opening fair race and alot of the season reserved went unused the whole night.  There has to be a happy medium between having a seat when running late or whatever, and letting it be empty all night.

Can't find results. Who won? Rain?

Even though I may not know you, I 
care what most of you think!

Nothing against Port as I do like the place and I wasn't going to the race anyway but I hope they re think the entire grandstand being reserved. I'm from a time when there were no reserved seats and many of us would get to the tracks early and stand in lines at the ticket booths before they opened and then it was a sprint to the top of the bleachers. Now I appreciate reserved seating a bit more but I think its wrong to reserve the whole grandstand. Sure it's only a couple of bucks more but I think its starting to milk the cow dry.

When you have a full house event,despite pleas to get the general admission to tighten up, they all sit on their hands and won't move. They know how many tickets they can sell with assigned seating, and how many they should get with general admission seating. They never get the count they should have, so it's all reserved. $.02

We always bought GA at events. Then we would move around to higher seats, if someone was going to make a big deal about it we would just look for better seats. Sometimes it worked well, others, not so much. The people at nascrap races were a real pain in the ass.

The idiots that come in an put blantets over 10x seats for 3x of them and their coolers ruined that.  That BS pisses me off to no end. All for paying for reserved seats/seat only tickets to end that nonsense. 

I'm still a big fan of the wood, covered grandstand, the pagoda,the pits in the infield, and the petting zoo in turn one.

A lot of people have reserved seats for the season just for the big races in large part because their reserved seating ticket sales for the 50 have been historically a pain in the ass. It's a lot easier to just throw down $85 for a seat right off the bat then have it available whenever you go than to deal with that shit show. They and some other tracks desperately need to get their head out of their asses and do it like Eldora does with online sales. It's long overdue. The solution for Port was simple: do it like Williams Grove and Lincoln does. Have the top 10, 12 or however many rows as season reserved. Then have the middle however many rows as general admission for regular shows and then sell those as reserved for the special shows and let the bottom rows that are left be general admission. But greed got in the way and now they're backed into a corner because in order to do that, they're gonna have to displace a lot of people who have had the same seats for years now. Then even at that, they won't have enough reserved seats and people will be forced to relinquish seats. That'll get messy and piss a lot of people off. So they're stuck with a really stupid situation that they 100% created themselves by trying to milk every possible dollar out of every seat and now it's biting them in the ass. They could make it so that season reserved seats are no longer good for the 50 but that would be a bad move too. The only solution is to screw a lot of people over really bad or build more seats and keep them for general admission. 

you're saying people are being a pain in the ass about sitting in the seats they had tickets for?

just trying to clarify.  it seems like a really hard concept these days for people to sit where their ticket says they should sit.  if it's the 7th inning or the final stage and nobody has been there all game/race...go for it.  

while i'm at it..."excuse me" is still appropriate when trying to get into your row.  

i don't have an opinion about ga vs reserved at sprint car races since we go in the infield.  i love the infield option at pa tracks and one of many reasons why i'd like to see the haulers out of the infield and williams grove.