Annoyance at the Keystones

[Keith 944]

Last year they parked near me a bunch of them got out of hummer so they are doing fine money wise. just say thanks and move on

[The Hawk]

Originally Posted by SSGT Mustang

One more thing. The bathrooms are disgusting at most tracks in D1. Most of the time you have to deal with port a potties that even worse. It's bad enough that money spent for a points meet doesn't include clean bathrooms. To have disgusting bathrooms at a national event is over the top.

After working in construction for over 25 years, drag strip porta potties don`t even compare to the job site units.

[Everett Vassar]

Anytime a public restroom at a privatly owned business is un healthy be it a drag strip or ball park the county health dept should be notified

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Everett Vassar

Anytime a public restroom at a privatly owned business is un healthy be it a drag strip or ball park the county health dept should be notified

As if there isn't enough govt. intrusion on our lives.

[Tom P]

There must be people older than me who recall tracks not having flush toilets at all.
I still shudder to recall the $#ithouses at Seattle Int'l Raceway in the 80's. The new ones are like a fancy hotel but those old ones seem to have been washed down by a guy with bad aim and explosive diarrhea every morning.

[MR DERBY CITY]

My first drag strip experience featured concrete toilets and recycled rain gutters cleverly disguised as urinals. Being from Kentucky it sure didn't bother me. I will leave it up to North Carolina to sort out all the bathroom issues....

[Darrel Goheen]

Originally Posted by Greg Gay

I didn’t mind sitting in my van in a hayfield in the rain for two days; no one can control the weather. And I didn’t mind that the NHRA chose to lead off on Saturday with the Pro’s; they are the primary reason that the spectators are there. I didn’t even mind waiting until Monday to complete the race. But what really annoys me is paying someone a dollar to hand me a paper towel each time that I go to the bathroom. The first time that I ever saw this was at Englishtown, but it seems to have spread, like the plague, to Atco, Maple Grove, and Cecil County, I believe.

Now, I’ve been to upscale motels where the maitre D hands you a towel, but they were never looking for a tip. And I know that half of the racers today have motor homes and can escape this nuisance. But if NHRA’s true customers are the spectators, then why allow them to be subject to this fleecing? Wouldn’t it be better for the tracks to have their own personnel to take care of the bathrooms, and pay them to do so? If 15,000 people really show up for one of these races, and each pays just a quarter, there’s almost an additional $4000 being coerced from your customers.
Maybe I’m just too cheap, but for spending 5 days at Maple Grove, this is what annoyed me the most. And it annoys me every time I see it at other tracks, too.

Greg

What's the towel for??

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Darrel Goheen

What's the towel for??

Blow your nose, shine your shoes, clean race car windows, bring to sanitary facility for the next go round.

[Jack Matyas]

Originally Posted by dartman

I would be happy to pay $1 to go in a clean $.hiter. but that's just me.

In this day and age of RV's that cost hundreds of thousands pulling trailers that are aluminum stackers and race cars that cost more than six figures it seems to be a small thing to put some change in their plate to do a job most of you wouldn't want to .

[Tom Goldman]

Seems like a lot of us don't remember what a big deal it was at Englishtown when they put in the modern facilities including showers .
They did have Porters too but the restrooms were spotless .
I do remember us fondly calling them the Supinski Super Sh@@@ers in appreciation of the racer who did the plumbing !