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August 15, 2022 at
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Posted By: StanM on August 15 2022 at 03:09:46 PM
This has been a hotter than usual summer and a lot of people can't take the heat. The racing fan base has a lot of gray hairs and we lose more of them (or I should probably say us) every season. That could partially explain the lower than normal attendance. Bottom line is we're all captian of our own ship. If we want to go to races we are free to do that. If we want to watch streaming races we have that right as well. If some folks in certain areas where there are three weekly 410 tracks are worried about attendance it seems their efforts should be directed towards bringing more friends and family to those tracks. If I go watch one of the local Hornets, Pure Stocks, Street Stocks, IMCA Stock Cars, WISSOTA Street Stocks, WISSOTA Super Stocks, IMCA Sports Mod, and IMCA Modified or whatever mix of classes the tracks near me run weekly it is of no benefit to either of us. I don't go watch those entry class shows and if I did it wouldn't be of any benefit to your local tracks.
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I get your point but if you attended a few races in Central Pa. you would find a different fan base than you in a lot of places. Yes there are the old guys. Am 67 but you will find more families and women at our tracks than a lot of places. Also our sprint car tracks don't run more than 2 or 3 division. A normal show at Williams Grove Lincoln or Port Royal Usually consists of 410's and maybe 358, 360 , 305 sprints, super and limited Late Models seldom more than 2 or 3 divions total. A story related to attendance from few years ago. We we to Indiana sprint week. They started to run a support division. My wife said didn't need to sit though them. I said " be quiet there wives or mothers might hear you" she said "no they won't the way it looks here compared to home the few women here their wives and mothers must even come."
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August 15, 2022 at
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Posted By: egras on August 15 2022 at 03:46:21 PM
I love the option of streaming races from around the country and world. However, the NFL has a blackout for everyone within a certain amount of miles if the crowd does not reach a certain % of capacity. Is it possible to blackout within say a 50 (or 75 or 100) mile radius?
I would also like to add, I don't think streaming services are the #1 reason for dropping attendance at our dirt tracks. It's the explosion of club sports IMO.
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You are correct. There is a guy on of stuff to do now that we didn't have in the 60's. Within the next week I have an invite to go to an outdoor festival to watch my son-in-law's band and an ATV outing that's going to set me back a couple hundred bucks. There are a bunch of professional teams, concerts, Festivals and Fairs and the list goes on. Also a wife that votes no on me taking solo racing trips. Matter of fact we have one of those B&B, antique shop, ferry ride to an island and every meal out at a nice place trips of hers coming up soon. Hard to argue with her, it hasn't gotten me anywhere in 50 years. ZZ Top coming up and a few others I'd like to go to. Whenever I spend a couple hundred on something like that it's a couple hundred I don't have for racing. I'm good for one or two of those kinds of outings per month. I guess to summarize it I have a lot of other interests besides racing that are equally expensive. Music gear and guitars aren't cheap, the house always needs something. Racing got pushed down the priority list when I retired. I still like it but ain't going to sell the farm to fund it.
Stan Meissner
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August 15, 2022 at
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Posted By: Joeltrasker on August 13 2022 at 03:33:08 PM
How many fans stayed home to watch PPV of the Nationals, instead of buying tickets? Saturday finals are SOLD OUT.
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A LOT !!!!
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August 15, 2022 at
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There will be changes to the streaming deals that the central PA tracks have. They are losing LOTS of money on the regular races and it has to be looked into. I think a 50 - 75 mile radius blackout zone would do the trick , because I don't think they can get the money out of Flo or Dirtvision to make up what they are losing now.
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