The New IHRA ???

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

MIKE:
This is a start...

However needs to be on TV and a professional format not just YouTube.
AND
without the painful advertisement !!

I like PINKS and their format...

D

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey

This is a start...

However needs to be on TV and a professional format not just YouTube.

1) This is merely archived footage. The entire event was broadcast live, including photo galleries, results, and interviews.
2) TV is EXPENSIVE. Pinks All Out cost "more than $400,000 an episode"
3) Missed a TV broadcast? Unless you DVR'd it, it's gone. There's very little multiplier available.
3) TV viewership is a guesstimate. Online viewership is trackable via server stats, it's a targeted, engaged audience, where advertisers have the ability to do more than just show static banner ads or traditional commercials. Audiences can also participate in live chat while watching the broadcast. Times, and audiences, are changing.

If it wasn't for my wife, we wouldn't even have cable. I canned it when I was in NC, and didn't miss it at all. There is an enormous amount of content available online now. The paradigm is slowly from "watch when we tell you to watch" to watch on-demand.

AND without the painful advertisement !!

That would be the people that PAID to make the broadcast possible. While you can't skip it in the live broadcast, you can very easily click past it in youtube. I've seen a lot of threads recently saying how "sponsors should do this" and "sponsors should do that", yet people complain about how sponsors don't do everything the racer wants and exactly how they want it.

Quite frankly, I thought the use of 'classic' elevator music in the elevator ad was hilarious! Am I in the market to buy an elevator? No, and never will be, but I sure appreciate everything John Taylor has done for the sport, both locally and nationally.

[pauldilcher]

Michael , some of these guys would complain if they got hung with a new rope .

[Harry 6674]

I believe if you don't want a Pinks All Out tv type show and you can't afford the pros your pretty much toast. You can't put butts in the seats with shoe polish. Never have never will. Although some nostalgia races can draw some people.

[442OLDS]

Originally Posted by Harry 6674

I believe if you don't want a Pinks All Out tv type show and you can't afford the pros your pretty much toast. You can't put butts in the seats with shoe polish. Never have never will. Although some nostalgia races can draw some people.

If the weather holds up,I think there will be a pretty good crowd this year at this event:


http://www.route66raceway.com/Events...t-Sundown.aspx

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by 442OLDS

If the weather holds up,I think there will be a pretty good crowd this year at this event:


http://www.route66raceway.com/Events...t-Sundown.aspx

The pit side spectator parking for this event is a good start, no one is parking 2 miles from their seat and walking back and forth to their car with kids, especially for a divisional race. I still say to run the Sportsman qualifying off of the class indexes. It is already in the computer and the cars still take the same amount of time to travrse the 1/4 mile. At least it adds a little drama to the finish line.

[Ed Wright]

Div 4 did that for a while. It was interesting, and good practice. Don't know why it stopped.

[chris3racing]

"Pinks" and "Pinks All Out" are to completely different things. Pinks was a complete disgrace to drag racing. It was like going to a fight and a drag race broke out. Pinks, in my opinion, was suppose to appear to be a grudge street race for "Pink Slips." Pinks All Out was a tv show and you did have to do some "show time" in the pits and in the staging lanes but when you pulled to the starting line one prize of $18,000 was at the end of the day. If you went to be on tv with 550 race cars in 9 classes then that was a roll of the dice. After you raced the first time under their program you new what to expect, but track to track for 3 years we raced their series it was a mad dash to get into the race which fill in about 10 minutes, but the entry fees were reasonable, spectators cost was reasonable at $25 per day to see 550 cars run heads up and "all out.

Wade you hit the nail on the head. Whether you are a car guy are not there are still people who like drag racing and just do not know that there are race track operating and there are some good races. The tracks seem to believe that the computer automatically comes on and tells you there is a drag race this week-end at your local track. It seem that they fell that everyone will go get on the computer and look for a race. In our area, North Carolina, the only radio advertisement you hear is NHRA at ZMax and ADRL at Rockingham. No one knows that one of the best drag racing events in our area, the Stock/Super Stock combo races, ever takes place unless they are a family member, friend or a Stock/SuperStock racer.

[Ed Carpenter]

Pro Stock,Pro Mod,Top Fuel get the idea. People do not come to races to see Stock or Super Stock. Next time your staging your car look to the left and right and tell me what you see. Nada!

[Carl Juliano]

Originally Posted by deuces wild

Pro Stock,Pro Mod,Top Fuel get the idea. People do not come to races to see Stock or Super Stock. Next time your staging your car look to the left and right and tell me what you see. Nada!

I agree. Until they get a Series sponsor willing to put up the money, they will not be able to support a true Pro format. They cant pay them enough to make it worth their while.
The Nitro Jams they have now put people in the seats because they have 4 Nitro cars doing a round robin routine, throw in some fuel alterds, nostalgia FCs, and a Jet. They book these cars for alot less than it would cost to support a Pro point series for PM, TF and PS.
Unless someone comes along and blows them away with a sponsorsip proposal, I dont think they are changing anything.
I was also surprised to see only three Pro Ams in the northeast?.....no Skyview this year? I was going to make that trip......oh well.