If you want to go to some real racing hit me up. I have 52 races on my schedule this summer so I am sure we can find one to work.
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If you want to go to some real racing hit me up. I have 52 races on my schedule this summer so I am sure we can find one to work.
No regular tracks. I follow the Malvern Bank SLMR East and West Series'. So basically I race in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas.
I just don't think there are enough events. I mean Knoxville works because they have an event almost every weekend. Newton had like 6 events, a couple of them were big events like Nationwide series and Truck series. I think they needed to do more with that area. Add go cart tracks, mini golf, make it a venue to get more people out that way.
Speaking of dieing racetracks. Cleetus McFarland, a youtuber whose real name is Garrett Mitchell, bought a 1/3 mile track in Florida that had been abandoned in 2018. This took place about a year ago. With the help of lots of sponsorships and people donating time and equipment along with using his YouTube revenue, he is getting the track cleaned up and repaired so it can be used again.
Here is the first video.
Here is the first video.
Farley is not far from my hometown. I have family members that are big into dirt track racing. We were home for a weekend and someone asked if we wanted to go to the race at Farley. It sounded like a good time, so I asked what the gate fee was. I want to say it was something like $25/person. And this was a regular night and not a special race. $50 gate fee for us plus food seemed like a lot to watch a race in Farley, IA, but I have no feel for what is typical. We opted not go to because the cost seemed excessive.
I used to attend races as an EMT so I was free but would see the cost. NC Iowa tracks were $15 about 3-5 years ago when I did that. Thought I heard a few jumped up to $20 a year ago.
That sounds right. I think someone at that time said special races were like $40-$60 gate fees. Maybe I'm out of touch, but that just seems like a lot to go to a race in rural IA. It also seems like a LOT of money based on the regular attendees at those events, but I suppose when there aren't that many entertainment options in that neck of the woods, people are willing to spend it?
I'll be there that's a SLMR East race. May 19 at Marshalltown will be a good show too.
Special are usually $20 - $30, maybe $35 for a really high paying race. Weekly are usually $10-$12
I know a guy who owns 2 IMCAs that he uses for advertising, said that just the entry fees and whatever the pit crew entry fees for his two races a week were hitting him 400/week. Was at his business when one of the drivers told him that his wreck would cost him 2500 bucks. He was a little POd after that. Decided it was not a good time to buy a new 4 wheeler from him.
$10-$12 gate fee every week seems much, much more in line with what I would expect. Maybe my memory is off and it was a special race when we considered going.
That being said, a $20 gate fee is ALMOST enough to get me inside for that tasty nacho supreme at the concession stand.
Exactly!! I get having family there but some people have never been around a race track then you give them pit passes and they wander around like a deer in headlights. Seen a few times where people had to get pulled out of the way from all the traffic in the pits.
I don’t know. Just what he said. Not sure what entry fees are but the pit passes I saw were 25/head.
At weekly races there are no entry fees and pit passes are probably like $25 each.
The series I run is $65 entry fee and $30/$35 pit passes. For example most of the time it's just me and my brother so it's like $135ish for pit passes and entry. I can go to 3 races for what that guy says he spends in 1 night. I almost think he is just saying that to get extra money from your friend.
Guessing each car has 4 people then. Since he would have 4 entries per week at $100/each using his numbers.
As an outsider with no interest in Nascar or Indy Car racing:
- Indy Car Racing isn't popular anywhere and especially in Iowa.
- Nascar attendance in general is crap and then you throw in that it's B league. I was reading about Bristol, which is pretty legendary, only having 35k attendance at a 160k seat track. It sounds like seating has been reduced at a lot of tracks.
- It's in Iowa. This doesn't help.
- Nascar seems to be anti-short track
- If Nascar would have given them a cup race, they would have at least had a chance. Plenty of other tracks have terrible attendance for everything else except the cup race.
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