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1) This place is like a bad train wreck. I can't stay away.
2) Tunafish is...entertainment.
3) Bring back a handicapping system, heat races, fast guys in the back. We used to start in the back of a 24-plus Late Model field nearly every week, come from the back in 25 laps, and run up front - or win - $1,000 every week.
4) Why do a lot of short tracks *refuse* to put on a SHOW? The fans come to be entertained, not bored to death with eighteen divisions of four cars each. "Our track had 200 cars in the pits last night!" "Yeah, and twenty-five divisions of cars."
5) Put good food in your concession stand.
6) NA$CAR sucks. My oldest daughter and her husband scored tickets to the "All-Star" wanna-be race Saturday. I told her, "Don't forget where you came from, you better go and support your local track (in Virginia)." I used to take her and her brother to the races all the time with me, now she's brainwashed like Tuna with this punky kid, and her husband is just as bad - a Carl Edwards fan...LOL...
7) BRING BACK REAL FIGURE-8 RACING. Not these winged Sprint-car/dirt Late Model wanna-be's, but a REAL Strictly Stock/Super Stock type car, with four door bars on both sides of the cage.
8) Strictly Stock *is* (or will be) the future of short track racing. Large fields, (mostly) STOCK cars, fairly cheap. Up here in Ohio, we have "Factory Fours": knock the glass/lights out, basic cage and safety equipment, all automatic transmissions. We've got Mitsubishi Eclipses, Nissan Sentras, Dodge Neons, the older Toyota Camrys, even a Volkswagen GTi and a few Ford Escorts - more like what the Mini Stock class *used* to be. Not these four-cylinder Late Models. And they're the largest fields of cars.
9) NA$CAR still sucks: When NA$CAR runs a Saturday-night race, a lot of fans will stay home to watch it on TV. If you're a track owner, and worried about it, why not have a few big-screens down by the concession stand/beer garden, fans can check in to the "big boys" in between Strictly Stocks and Legends.
10) NA$CAR really sucks: Take the Trucks back to the short tracks. Those were the BEST Truck races in the early seasons. Let 'em run Daytona, maybe Charlotte, like the old Late Model Sportsman days, but put the majority of the races back on the short tracks.
11) NA$CAR sucks even more: instead of making the drivers declare what series they want to get points in, limit the Cup guys - and even the Cup-affiliated teams - to like six or eight races in the other two major series. Don't schedule the lower two series at the same track on the same weekend; make 'em further apart so it's harder for the Cup guys to make it between races. Let the Nationwide and Truck series re-establish their own identities again. A Nationwide "regular" (if there is such a thing any more) has yet to win, or even score a top-five because of guys like Carl Busch and Kyle Edwards.
12) If NA$CAR does run a Saturday night race, and you're a track owner worried about it (losing fans staying home), why not run a Sunday-afternoon show?
13) Why are there no "specials" throughout the season any more? Used to be, there was a Memorial day 100-lapper, a 4th of July or mid-season double points special, a Labor Day 50-lapper, and an end-of-the-seaon deal with double points before everyone got ready for the Governor's Cup.
14) Move the Governor's Cup back to its early November date, after all of the other tracks' seasons are done. Put it back on Sunday afternoon.
15) Bring back a TRUE Triple Crown weekend, with three different tracks in three days. Friday: 100-lapper at Bronson. Saturday: bring back the Gulf Coast Classic 100 at Punta Gorda. Then haul-ass back up I-75/I-4 to New Smyrna for the 200 on Sunday. Bring back the infield scoring/scorers since the damn scoreboard don't hardly ever work (either one of 'em). Run heat/qualifying races (no boring time trials), again with the fast guys in the back.
16) Four or five classes MAX, with Late Models on a weekly basis.
17) Open-comp Late Models. 10" tires, 400-cid max, wedge bodies, 40" spoiler, and four fenders. Minimum wight rule, minimum roll cage thickness/diameter. Those are the only rules.
18) Get rid of the ABC bodies. $200-300 for a few aluminum sheets vs $900 for the fiberglass.
19) Put on a show with dirt Late Models on pavement. I know Punta Gorda tried it, and it seemed to work pretty good.
20) With the Governor's Cup race now in early November, put the Orange Blossom race back on New Year's weekend, after the Snowball.
21) It seems the majority of members here - not *all*, but the majority - are either Orlando or New Smyrna racers/fans. Anyone here from up in the northern part of the state (Pensacola, Lake City, etc.)?
22) Why don't different tracks have the same rules for the same type of classes? For example, two tracks run very similar rules for say, Super Stocks/Street Stocks/Hobby Stocks. But track A allows aftermarket A-frames, but track B says stock. Why can't they all just get along?
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1) This place is like a bad train wreck. I can't stay away.
2) Tunafish is...entertainment.
3) Bring back a handicapping system, heat races, fast guys in the back. We used to start in the back of a 24-plus Late Model field nearly every week, come from the back in 25 laps, and run up front - or win - $1,000 every week.
4) Why do a lot of short tracks *refuse* to put on a SHOW? The fans come to be entertained, not bored to death with eighteen divisions of four cars each. "Our track had 200 cars in the pits last night!" "Yeah, and twenty-five divisions of cars."
5) Put good food in your concession stand.
6) NA$CAR sucks. My oldest daughter and her husband scored tickets to the "All-Star" wanna-be race Saturday. I told her, "Don't forget where you came from, you better go and support your local track (in Virginia)." I used to take her and her brother to the races all the time with me, now she's brainwashed like Tuna with this punky kid, and her husband is just as bad - a Carl Edwards fan...LOL...
7) BRING BACK REAL FIGURE-8 RACING. Not these winged Sprint-car/dirt Late Model wanna-be's, but a REAL Strictly Stock/Super Stock type car, with four door bars on both sides of the cage.
8) Strictly Stock *is* (or will be) the future of short track racing. Large fields, (mostly) STOCK cars, fairly cheap. Up here in Ohio, we have "Factory Fours": knock the glass/lights out, basic cage and safety equipment, all automatic transmissions. We've got Mitsubishi Eclipses, Nissan Sentras, Dodge Neons, the older Toyota Camrys, even a Volkswagen GTi and a few Ford Escorts - more like what the Mini Stock class *used* to be. Not these four-cylinder Late Models. And they're the largest fields of cars.
9) NA$CAR still sucks: When NA$CAR runs a Saturday-night race, a lot of fans will stay home to watch it on TV. If you're a track owner, and worried about it, why not have a few big-screens down by the concession stand/beer garden, fans can check in to the "big boys" in between Strictly Stocks and Legends.
10) NA$CAR really sucks: Take the Trucks back to the short tracks. Those were the BEST Truck races in the early seasons. Let 'em run Daytona, maybe Charlotte, like the old Late Model Sportsman days, but put the majority of the races back on the short tracks.
11) NA$CAR sucks even more: instead of making the drivers declare what series they want to get points in, limit the Cup guys - and even the Cup-affiliated teams - to like six or eight races in the other two major series. Don't schedule the lower two series at the same track on the same weekend; make 'em further apart so it's harder for the Cup guys to make it between races. Let the Nationwide and Truck series re-establish their own identities again. A Nationwide "regular" (if there is such a thing any more) has yet to win, or even score a top-five because of guys like Carl Busch and Kyle Edwards.
12) If NA$CAR does run a Saturday night race, and you're a track owner worried about it (losing fans staying home), why not run a Sunday-afternoon show?
13) Why are there no "specials" throughout the season any more? Used to be, there was a Memorial day 100-lapper, a 4th of July or mid-season double points special, a Labor Day 50-lapper, and an end-of-the-seaon deal with double points before everyone got ready for the Governor's Cup.
14) Move the Governor's Cup back to its early November date, after all of the other tracks' seasons are done. Put it back on Sunday afternoon.
15) Bring back a TRUE Triple Crown weekend, with three different tracks in three days. Friday: 100-lapper at Bronson. Saturday: bring back the Gulf Coast Classic 100 at Punta Gorda. Then haul-ass back up I-75/I-4 to New Smyrna for the 200 on Sunday. Bring back the infield scoring/scorers since the damn scoreboard don't hardly ever work (either one of 'em). Run heat/qualifying races (no boring time trials), again with the fast guys in the back.
16) Four or five classes MAX, with Late Models on a weekly basis.
17) Open-comp Late Models. 10" tires, 400-cid max, wedge bodies, 40" spoiler, and four fenders. Minimum wight rule, minimum roll cage thickness/diameter. Those are the only rules.
18) Get rid of the ABC bodies. $200-300 for a few aluminum sheets vs $900 for the fiberglass.
19) Put on a show with dirt Late Models on pavement. I know Punta Gorda tried it, and it seemed to work pretty good.
20) With the Governor's Cup race now in early November, put the Orange Blossom race back on New Year's weekend, after the Snowball.
21) It seems the majority of members here - not *all*, but the majority - are either Orlando or New Smyrna racers/fans. Anyone here from up in the northern part of the state (Pensacola, Lake City, etc.)?
22) Why don't different tracks have the same rules for the same type of classes? For example, two tracks run very similar rules for say, Super Stocks/Street Stocks/Hobby Stocks. But track A allows aftermarket A-frames, but track B says stock. Why can't they all just get along?
Feel free to discuss
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