NHRA Division 1 - Purse & Entry Changes for 2020

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I mentioned a few years back (Pre Dave being the head honcho) about letting me help out with marketing D1 races. I mean the paper on my wall does say "Marketing Degree...lol". One of the biggest assets that we have isn't even used and that's the great sponsors at PC Richards. You have stores miles away from the track and don't utilize them to the public in the area. You should gather a few local racers, Maybe a Alky Car, COPO and park them in front of the store and make an event out of it, maybe offer those racers a 1/2 off discount into the race and a decent parking spot since they won't make it there till Thursday. I was told before well we put free tickets out on the counter for people to take if they want.....Ummm Hello, if I just bought a brand new 72 inch TV with all the gadgets and fixings, I'm worried about getting that sucker home to install instead of looking for free tickets to a race but, I was told a car show would never work.

Billy K. at Maple Grove does great work with the local High Schools to get them to attend more events and Chris at NED (i see he's bringing it back this year) did stuff with the local camp he helped out at for the D1 race. You have to make it cost effective for people to come watch and explain it to them. People don't go to Eagles or Flyers games as a family anymore because it's a $500 night. I went last Saturday and 2 beers cost $24....thank god we got free tix off of a fellow racer. Maple Grove deal is cool to watch Alky cars,Top Sportsman & TD but, you throw a qualifier and 2 rounds of Comp into it and nothing against Comp, it takes someone to really understand Comp to get it and why they shut off at 1/2 track when someone goes red or only runs it out to 1,000 foot on a bye. We almost have to make Saturday Nights of D1 races into a mini-thrill show, all us sportsman are more or less done by 3pm on Saturdays so the fans don't have to see the boring throttle stop cars, etc.