Traveling series

[UREZ2PASS]

Lets pretend -

Everybody that reads this is now a Florida asphalt circle track owner and the sole promoter of your track. Your track host the typical Florida classes of race cars on a weekly basis.

Would you have a traveling series come to your track that has classes you run on a weekly basis ? Remember these traveling series have their own set of rules that may or may not compare equally to your weekly rules. They have their own tech people and race directors that will be the officials at your track for the series.

What do you see as the pros and cons of inviting a traveling series to your track ?

[Benny The Mule]

Lets pretend

Would you have a traveling series come to your track that has classes you run on a weekly basis ?

No.

I would have non-typical traveling shows. Sprints, legends, etc.

I would run 3 classes weekly. Streetstock, V6 bomber and 4cyl bomber. When i say bomber i mean off the street with safety mods. (affordable).

I will then alternate my Late models, modified and sportsman.

Add a traveling show and i will run 5 classes per event.

Depending on what traveling series approaches me for dates if they are not filled i will add my other 3 classes on some of the dates as a 2 race per month and so on.

I will create my schedule before season start and stick to it.

My lates, mods and sportsman now have the opportunity to travel if they choose to do so.

I will have a double points night once a month for all my classes. Gotta keep em loyal.

You did say this was pretend......................

[Boneman]

Add traveling series and variety? Absolutely. It should be a crime to present the same show week in and week out. I can tolerate watching antique Monte Carlos drive in circles, but most fans can't, and virtually no new fans will become hooked on our sport through a sub-standard show.

I am a sprint car fan because they are the fastest, flashiest racecars around. Yes, I'd have them visit a few times a year, and I'd pair them up with another open-wheeled support division. Showtime runs sprints with the mini-sprints, and Full Throttle will probably run them on the same night as the TQ's. Fans want a show and no one passes more than the TBARA winged sprints.

My track would have a small oval in the middle like Full Throttle or Orlando. Know what I'd try? Short track, pavement motorcycles. I've seen them and they scared me to death. Those guys were wild and the show was unforgetable. I suspect they are also inexpensive and plentiful.

I like Showtime's approach to figure 8's. They run 3 classes! Keep them inexpensive, slow and safe. If they run in traffic on a small track, you will have a super show, no matter what speed they go.

What I've never seen is pavement 4 wheelers. Maybe they need dirt race on, I have no idea. Put them on the same smaller track as the motorcycles, but remember, the owners and fans of 4 wheelers are young and not very involved in our sport. We need to snag some of them.

Weekly, I'd have a 4 cylinder class called "Tunerz" (a name recognized by any gearhead under 40, yet unknown among old timers like us). It would be wide open for stock, inexpensive street cars. Have another class for 6 or 8 cylinder cars, "The Fast and Furious".

Get new racers hooked in these classes, then maybe they will graduate to other good ones like OWM or Legends.

[SSMotorsports14]

Yes I would have the travel series at my track! I would have my 3 or 4 backbone classes run alternating to where they run twice a month to help keep it affordable for them. I would have the open wheel series cars coming in and the full body cars rotating in once a month for each of them. You have TBARA, Outlaw modifieds, OWM's, Legends, TQ midgets, Dwarfs, ect,ect. Then you have the FUPS with the Super Lates, Sportsman, Trucks come in. All theses series have their own tech personnel and promoters which would help the track owners. They also can bring sponsors to the table to help out with purses. Typically the series payout better money to the drivers and teams which brings better car count which brings in more fan base to the tracks. For the most part the quality is usually better. There are many ways to slice it up but I would most definitely have traveling series at my track.

[Matt Albee]

I wouldn't bring in any class i already had, no point to that. But instead of bringing in any traveling series, i might instead partner with another nearby track or two and alternate certain classes.
And then concentrate on building my own field of cars and drivers. Build a good solid " stock car " show along with a Mimi-Stock class, probably trucks too. Then once or twice a month bring in SLMs or OWMs from the partner tracks while sending them my Mini-Stock, Figure 8, or Truck show. Also bring in Sprints and Midgets from time to time. Maybe a Demo Derby. And once a year, the ever popular Crash A Rama or one of it's offspring.