Columbia Motorsports park

[northfloridajoyce]

No Rain show was great ;
Sportsman Class : Jeff Prescott
Pure Stock : Jason Kight
V-8 Bombers : Mike Parsel
Hornets : Justin Ellison

Next week is where all the action will be.
So come on out to the Saturday night show and be here for the
Reunion of all our drivers 60 and over.........

[Nickel and Dime]

Car count

Sportsman - 6 start - 5 finish
Pure Stock - 5 start - 4 finish
V-8 Bomber - 2 start - 2 finish
Hornets - 5 start - 5 finish

Yep, great show!!
Now Friday night at Ocala, that was a great show!!!

[Jane]

Maybe the car count was not great like Ocala but I remember Clyde Hart said it only takes two cars to make a race and it can be a great race. I will admit that car counts for dirt racing are much better than car counts for asphalt racing but we are all trying our best and that is all any track can do. Those guys at Columbia give it their all just as every dirt driver gives it his all.

Remember, we need to support our local tracks right now the best we can no matter if it is dirt or asphalt. And hopefully I will make it to their "Blast from the Past" this Sunday depending on my gas money situation.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL TRACK BECAUSE TOMORROW IT COULD BE SOMETHING OTHER THAN A RACE TRACK AND THEN YOU WILL DEFINITELY WISH YOU HAD SUPPORTED IT.

[Joker139]

Same old, same old!!

Yeah, what a show. The same one that you will see week in and week out. Before you ever get to the track, you know that Prescott will win by a mile in the sportsman class. Started on the rear and within one lap was in the lead. Hornets, same thing. Pure stock was won by a half track lead over second place. But hell, everyone loves to see runaway racin, right? The main thing that confuses me is the 7 car that won the pure stocks. That car was banned for two weeks but somehow won the race Sat. night and in tech., never pulled the hood or weighed. Rolled through and put it on the trailer. But hey, it's not the first time Don has changed things up for the sake of car count. But it may be his last. And sorry Jane, but it is real hard to support a track owner that will not support his drivers or the rules they race by.

[Jane]

Sweetie, I don't know about changing rules and that stuff, I just know if we don't support our local tracks, they won't be there. I won't even pretend I know about what happens in tech and what doesn't happen but I can see many tracks are struggling right now and slipping away. How many have we lost thus far in Florida - the answer is too many.

I get results from all over the country for Southern Short Track and it just isn't Florida suffering, everywhere is suffering. I just hate the thought of another track going under. I know alot of drivers can't afford to race anymore and they are very frustrated, we all are. We can boycott tracks and not go and when they are gone, they are gone. Then we really do have nothing.

[Frasson118]

People have been predicting the end of Auto Racing for well over 100 years now. Individual tracks come and go, but the sport itself ain't going anywhere.

The tracks themselves have one hell of a lot of influence of whether they live or die. Tracks with bad shows and low car counts will NOT survive, but racing itself will.

This is another track (along with OSW) that have nothing to lose by switching to dirt. It would cost a bunch up-front, but in the long run (which I'm sure Don is in for), it would pay huge returns compared to what they are pulling in from the asphalt guys.

Think of it this way... several hundred Dirt teams drive right past the Ellisville exit coming down for Speedweeks. Wouldn't it be nice to see 100 or so of them come there for a few races? With an asphalt surface, there is NO chance of creating a Speedweeks event.

[Frasson118]

"it only takes two cars to make a race and it can be a great race"

Clyde never took $15 out of his pocket to watch those 2 cars race either.... but he didn't feel one bit bad about taking YOUR money for a pitiful excuse for car count.

With those car counts, this was a $5.00 MAXIMUM show. Anything higher is a rip-off. For $10 or $15 per admission, I'd better get a whole lot more than 18 cars TOTAL.

Try lowering your admission fee's, which might put quite a few extra warm bodies in the place. Of that group (and encourage the HELL out of this), some can be influenced into building and racing a car there themselves. This will improve the car counts, after a while.

Improving the front gate, will improve the back gate, and vice-versa. But if you don't get anyone through either gate, you can't survive!

[Rick Williamson]

Well said Jerry. You can watch a 2 car race on interstate 4 in the 2 other lanes beside you. ANYDAY of the week for free! 4 or 5 cars at ANY TRACK isn't a race no matter who says it is. It's just a track that's dead and doesn't know it yet.