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chris3racing · 01-02-2013, 11:30 AM

Michael, I understand what you are saying. That is what happened at Pullin Entertainment and Speed Channel. The individual who came up with the idea and got it all started was also smart enough to have a contract. When he decided to leave to go to another type of event, by contract the event was finished. They have been discussing bring that event back in another type of format but just have not come up with something they feel everyone would support.

It would take someone with a large amount of capital to be able to put an event like that on. Hiring all of the personnel and coordination of those events had to take a lot of effort and finances. As you know NHRA tried something similar in "Unleashed" but the costs to enter their event left out a lot of racers. The fact that some of the racers who participated at Pinks All Out were some of the same racers that raced in Class at NHRA events, limited who participated at Unleashed. When we wanted to do one of the first Unleashed events the cost to enter, crew prices and all of the other costs per NHRA put us out. The Pinks All Out entry was only $60 for the week-end and $25 per crew member which for us totaled up to around $200. Unleashed with NHRA was $1000+ as I recall.

Racers will race in some format somewhere and hopefully not cost the the price of a mortgage payment. The key is to get the spectators back to help the track owners to be able to pay the expenses without having the racers paying all of the bills. Two or three hundred spectators at $10 is alot better than only 20 spectators at $25.

I, like everyone else is just brainstorming suggestions of how to keep this sport alive and thriving without going to the track each week-end and only have maybe 30 cars in the pits and the five or ten people in the grandstands being family members of the racers who came to race. You, like everyone else on this board know that this is what it is like every week-end at local tracks. Once a track has to close there is a developer standing at the gate with a bulldozer and building materials for new condos.

01-02-2013, 11:30 AM	#7
chris3racing Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 528 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: How competitive are you? Michael, I understand what you are saying. That is what happened at Pullin Entertainment and Speed Channel. The individual who came up with the idea and got it all started was also smart enough to have a contract. When he decided to leave to go to another type of event, by contract the event was finished. They have been discussing bring that event back in another type of format but just have not come up with something they feel everyone would support. It would take someone with a large amount of capital to be able to put an event like that on. Hiring all of the personnel and coordination of those events had to take a lot of effort and finances. As you know NHRA tried something similar in "Unleashed" but the costs to enter their event left out a lot of racers. The fact that some of the racers who participated at Pinks All Out were some of the same racers that raced in Class at NHRA events, limited who participated at Unleashed. When we wanted to do one of the first Unleashed events the cost to enter, crew prices and all of the other costs per NHRA put us out. The Pinks All Out entry was only $60 for the week-end and $25 per crew member which for us totaled up to around $200. Unleashed with NHRA was $1000+ as I recall. Racers will race in some format somewhere and hopefully not cost the the price of a mortgage payment. The key is to get the spectators back to help the track owners to be able to pay the expenses without having the racers paying all of the bills. Two or three hundred spectators at $10 is alot better than only 20 spectators at $25. I, like everyone else is just brainstorming suggestions of how to keep this sport alive and thriving without going to the track each week-end and only have maybe 30 cars in the pits and the five or ten people in the grandstands being family members of the racers who came to race. You, like everyone else on this board know that this is what it is like every week-end at local tracks. Once a track has to close there is a developer standing at the gate with a bulldozer and building materials for new condos.