Test & Tune Pricing

[M&M Motorsports]

T&T sessions are valuable to all of us, however, are sometimes costly. How much should it cost and what kind of track prep is reasonable? I realize that track operators have to make money but when T&T sessions are $100 / car and track prep is virtually non-existant, what value is there? Is it possible to have a $50 T&T with one lane prep? Thoughts? Personally, $100 is too high while $50 would allow us to test 2 cars at every opportunity.

[Run to Rund]

Vegas is usually around $50 with prep. Wednesday nights are $30, no prep (I think).

[John Dinkel]

Since the tracks already have to pay their help wether there are two or twenty cars.
They have to pay X dollars. Why not charge $30 or $40 and have a hundred guys testing.
Seems like a win win to me.

[Lew Silverman]

I thought that $100.00 for a one-day T&T sounded a little high, but with traction compound costing upwards of $800 a barrel, I guess that's fair. Depending on how big a crowd there was, you should be able to make as many runs as you want and that might make it more reasonable, but it's still only $60 less than the entry fee for the whole race weekend!

Lew

[Don Kennedy]

it has been my experience that most of the time the test and tune session are not worth it . Most of the time the track does not prepp the track at all .

[Chad Rhodes]

the easy solution would be to make it a $50 TnT with a minimum number of cars, then ask for a "pre entry" or a commitment. If you don't reach the minimum number in pre entries, then it would go up to $100 on site. I would think that would be motive enough to have people pre enter to save $50, the track might even make more money.

[jim powers]

our local track here in jersey , etown has a 100 t&t every sunday . at 100 a car very few take advantage of it because the track prep is less than desirable and i have known the starter tom r. for over 40 years ; that being said if your car is close to right i find that if you watch who goes down in front of you[ street car non slick tire cars] and be sure there is no water dragged up you can usually do ok, the real problem is the amount of breakage and down time on any given sunday or wednesday nite; and it is mostly the import crowd to blame!

[Michael Beard]

Why would I pay $100 to test n' tune when I can run for $5,000 to win for that? $35 is plenty for a test and tune. Most tracks' weekly test n' tune is cheaper than that. Guess it costs 5x as much to have a class car go down your race track... One thing's for sure, at $100, the track will receive $0 from me.

Supply and demand. They charge $100 because enough people actually pay it. Don't stand for it, and the price will come down.

[jeff conley]

Every Thursday (it's called Rock's Rental) before our 1st Friday of each month Friday Heads Up Series Race we have a proffesional test session from 12pm-8pm one lane prepped. Pro Mods all the way down to NHRA stockers show up every month cost is $100 Track is fully prepped for maximum traction.

[jmcarter]

A little off topic but think Rowland and the folks at SGMP have it right by offering a 5K to win combo race on the Friday of their D2 race. This eliminates the need for T&T unless you're wanting to make several major changes, in which case you need to go to a dedicated test session at a good track. The combo race gives you at least 3 hits, granted it cost $200 to enter but whens the last time you had the opportunity to win 5K on the Friday before the Divisional on Sat and Sun? (Similar to the Bowling Green 5K Nitroplate race on the Saturday night of the National Open.....another no-brainer but you'd be surprised how many people passed on the 5K race). No alchohol cars opens up so many possibilties.

I'm with you guys, for me $100 for T & T ain't gonna happen!