Reply to:
Posted By: Todd Hoffman on August 28 2014 at 09:13:33 AM
I have a problem with playgrounds at race tracks.
1) Our sport needs the kids to want to go to the track because of the racing, not because there's a playground
and
2) Parents need to want to take their kids to the track to share and enjoy the racing with them, not because the track provides a free babysitter.
My $.02 anyway.
|
I understand your concern and somewhat agree with you but, my kids absolutely love the playground area at Hartford and they watch just as much of the race as they do anywhere else. It just allows me to enjoy my time at the track because they can burn off energy on the playground instead of jumping around in the bleachers.
Kids have an extremely short attention span, the show needs to KEEP MOVING. When one race gets done, the next one needs to immediately take the track. Cars with clutches/starters need to come off the infield in their starting order and take the green flag the FIRST time past the flag stand.
30 min intermissions/BEER graders are simply unacceptable for getting people to bring their kids to the track.
Also the show needs to end at a decent time 10 pm is great 10:30 is acceptable, 11 pm is NOT acceptable if you want to get kids to come to the track. This just might mean getting rid of a support class or two, the only thing they are supporting is pit pass sales. They kill my ambition to take my kids to the races.
5-6 classes of cars is simply unacceptable. There is NEVER a need for more than 3 classes of cars.
Heres looking at you Huset's Speedway, go back to when your track put on a great show and wasn't more concerned about concession sales/pit passes than it was about putting on a good show.
410's, 360's and Late Model Stock Cars, that'd be a show worth going to if those clowns could manage to keep the grader off of the track and get the show done in 3 hrs (7pm-10pm).
Those are just my rambling thoughts of taking my young sons to the track.
|
