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Posted By: Shortie12 on February 06 2022 at 11:32:10 PM
Lot of fans and Busch and Fox did a great job of promoting.70MPH racing but not a wreck fest.I was pleasantly surprized. Legend cars or even gokarts or Ford Focus midgets with those drivers would have been good but the all the new cars wasnt bad at all.
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I watched most of it, it wasn't too bad. They could run some midgets on that track if they wanted to get some more use out of the asphalt before they tear it up.
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Posted By: saphead on February 07 2022 at 06:46:05 AM
I watched most of it, it wasn't too bad. They could run some midgets on that track if they wanted to get some more use out of the asphalt before they tear it up.
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There were more spectators than I expected. I wonder how many tickets were handed out free at Walmarts.
Within hearing distance of Tri City Speedway
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February 07, 2022 at
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i enjoyed it. good concept except for the halftime break and hip hop concert with spoiled rich kids dancing in the stands. they'll never stop trying to promote to audiences that will never really care enough to be real race fans. move it to charlotte or atlanta where it belongs.
the concept of course was stolen from sprint car racing with heat races and a feature. i read some of the fans missed the heat races because they claimed to not know about them...but my guess is they have no familiarity to that type of format and realized later they missed out.
sprint car racing also doesn't make the mistake of alienating the people who made them popular. i guess one benefit to the tracks doing a lot of their own scheduling and promoting for dirt racing is they're not at the mercy of a sanctioning body that has its own priorities. port royal cares about getting its fans through the gate...not fans in california or even fans watching on tv. they pay attention to what we want and i think that's a big part of why sprint car racing has been so successful.
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Posted By: sw1911 on February 07 2022 at 07:00:55 AM
There were more spectators than I expected. I wonder how many tickets were handed out free at Walmarts.
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race did one thing, it showed the chili bowel fans the real size of a 1/4 mile track. Someone said it cost NASCAR 1 million to get track set up. Are they really going to tear asphalt up? California has some small paved tracks. Why not use one of them????
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Posted By: linbob on February 07 2022 at 12:44:59 PM
race did one thing, it showed the chili bowel fans the real size of a 1/4 mile track. Someone said it cost NASCAR 1 million to get track set up. Are they really going to tear asphalt up? California has some small paved tracks. Why not use one of them????
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Posted By: linbob on February 07 2022 at 12:44:59 PM
race did one thing, it showed the chili bowel fans the real size of a 1/4 mile track. Someone said it cost NASCAR 1 million to get track set up. Are they really going to tear asphalt up? California has some small paved tracks. Why not use one of them????
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Which one of those tracks seats 60k fans? and 1 million dollars to set that up is nothing for how many tickets they were able to sell, plus it did great TV ratings.
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Posted By: Kingpin2014 on February 07 2022 at 09:18:00 PM
Which one of those tracks seats 60k fans? and 1 million dollars to set that up is nothing for how many tickets they were able to sell, plus it did great TV ratings.
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My brother watched the first half and then turned it off when they rolled out the rap stuff. I watched a YouTube video to see the crowd size and I'd say that it looked impressive. I'd be skeptical about how many tickets were actually sold for a couple of reasons. I'd bet that a bunch were given away. If the were all sold, how many of those people were there for the rappers? I have no idea who the rappers were or how popular they are.
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Posted By: Dryslick Willie on February 08 2022 at 04:53:21 AM
My brother watched the first half and then turned it off when they rolled out the rap stuff. I watched a YouTube video to see the crowd size and I'd say that it looked impressive. I'd be skeptical about how many tickets were actually sold for a couple of reasons. I'd bet that a bunch were given away. If the were all sold, how many of those people were there for the rappers? I have no idea who the rappers were or how popular they are.
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I'm not disputing anything you said, but it does make me wonder. How many people would go to see certain rappers, because there would also be a NASCAR race? How many would go to a NASCAR race just because it had rappers entertaining?
To be honest, I didn't watch the race, not my thing- I'm a sprint car zombie. I don't know who won the race-don't care. However, I'm reading lots of fluffy PR generated 'news' about how awesome it was and how NASCAR is trying to reach new audiences, and try new things, etc. I didn't realize that this race had a half-time show. Maybe for the next one, they will get Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake to perform.
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Posted By: Murphy on February 08 2022 at 08:19:39 AM
I'm not disputing anything you said, but it does make me wonder. How many people would go to see certain rappers, because there would also be a NASCAR race? How many would go to a NASCAR race just because it had rappers entertaining?
To be honest, I didn't watch the race, not my thing- I'm a sprint car zombie. I don't know who won the race-don't care. However, I'm reading lots of fluffy PR generated 'news' about how awesome it was and how NASCAR is trying to reach new audiences, and try new things, etc. I didn't realize that this race had a half-time show. Maybe for the next one, they will get Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake to perform.
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Same thing here, a sprint car zombie. That being said, I would watch NASCAR back when Smoke was still winning and it was OK. I only watched a couple of minutes of the YouTube clip. I was curious about the crowd and also how the track looked in that arena. Put midgets on that track and I'll watch, but no interest in seeing NASCAR or any kind of stock car on it.
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Posted By: Kingpin2014 on February 07 2022 at 09:18:00 PM
Which one of those tracks seats 60k fans? and 1 million dollars to set that up is nothing for how many tickets they were able to sell, plus it did great TV ratings.
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People who say this mean well, but don't understand what NASCAR is looking for.... a mainstream audience. They might be able to sell a "field of dreams" concept down the road, fixing up a dump and making it into a showplace, which is a great idea, but they needed something to grab people's attention and the Coliseum did that.
I hate almost everything about NASCAR, the way they look down on other forms of racing, the way they've made themselves the WWE of racing, but even I have to admit this was a bigger hit than anyone other than the biggest Cup shill could have imagined.
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NASCAR is such an embarassment to motorsports, kill it with fire
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Nascar drug testing policy:
Random testing of all drivers and crew members.
MANDATORY daily testing of all (so-called) entertainers !
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Posted By: dsc1600 on February 09 2022 at 07:44:49 AM
People who say this mean well, but don't understand what NASCAR is looking for.... a mainstream audience. They might be able to sell a "field of dreams" concept down the road, fixing up a dump and making it into a showplace, which is a great idea, but they needed something to grab people's attention and the Coliseum did that.
I hate almost everything about NASCAR, the way they look down on other forms of racing, the way they've made themselves the WWE of racing, but even I have to admit this was a bigger hit than anyone other than the biggest Cup shill could have imagined.
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You make an interesting point with them looking for a "mainstream" audience, but then again has any form of racing really ever been mainstream?
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