NHRA Marketing Strategy, or Lack Thereof..

[Chris "drooze" Wertman]

Originally Posted by hemidup

Maybe its time for us racers to get involved if scheduling permits it. Maybe volunteer a Saturday or Sunday once a year? Maybe go to your local school and setup a field trip? Talk with your local newspaper for some free press? Talk with your local parts stores and have them kick in a few bucks to keep the cost of the field trip down? Talk with your local track for reduced or free admission since they'll make it up at the consession stand?....Just throwing some idea's out there is all.

Lol...yuppers....It WAS Called "Safety Safari" and it helped to boon the sport to the track when street racing was becoming a menace.

Worked then, and as you see it would work now...its gonna take effort.

The other thing for FANS is they WONT, and wont bother to understand something oddly complex, the do understand first guy to the finish wins...the racers understand brackets and eliminators, but not the fans....

Let see, 5 card games, Canasta, Bridge, Pinochle,Blackjack and Poker.
All 5 are hard to play well....but 2 anyone can understand with about 5 minutes instruction, 2 are played on TV, 3 arent....not that theyre that hard, just people WONT get it, some do...but people have too short an attention span to "learn" to enjoy and understand something.

First guy to the finsih . my 3 yr old understands, try to explain bracket to her.

Thats a GREAT Idea, to go out and bring them in.....grab anyone and everyone, a "caravan" to the track, get some "Youth Evangalists" Younger guys in the know with a hot ride to hit the "hangouts" and hey follow me.......out to the track....

Great doing...is this Jerry or Don ? lol.....