Houston Cancellation Article

KRatcliff · 05-02-2013, 07:49 PM

Very good article. I am surprised at how much was really laid out on the table. Pleased to see that, but this part chapped me from Seth Angel.

“We wish that everyone could be parked on asphalt, and it’s no secret our family is in the paving industry,” Angel said. “At the end of the day, the economics of owning a drag strip doesn’t allow for us to pave miles and miles of pit area. We’ve made improvements over the years and will continue to do so. But when you have your biggest weekend of the year, have 450 cars, all of which are not on paved asphalt you’ll have these kinds of situations.

“It’s happened at NHRA owned tracks and this [flooding] isn’t the first time it’s happened to sportsman racers and likely won’t be the last. It’s a problem, there’s no doubt and we will keep making improvements in the coming years. We just can’t do it all at once. We cannot spend three or four million dollars paving a sportsman pit area that we use one time a year. The economics of our business simply doesn’t allow for it. And I believe the racers can understand that.”

Excuse me? I have been attending 3 races per year at that track for at least the last two years (maybe three) and I have yet to park anywhere other than the grass/dirt. It is not just the Spring Nationals that we are out there. It is every race.

And there is nothing saying they have to do it all at once. A little effort would go a long way.

05-02-2013, 07:49 PM	#2
KRatcliff Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 765 Likes: 75 Liked 524 Times in 141 Posts	Re: Houston Cancellation Article Very good article. I am surprised at how much was really laid out on the table. Pleased to see that, but this part chapped me from Seth Angel. “We wish that everyone could be parked on asphalt, and it’s no secret our family is in the paving industry,” Angel said. “At the end of the day, the economics of owning a drag strip doesn’t allow for us to pave miles and miles of pit area. We’ve made improvements over the years and will continue to do so. But when you have your biggest weekend of the year, have 450 cars, all of which are not on paved asphalt you’ll have these kinds of situations. “It’s happened at NHRA owned tracks and this [flooding] isn’t the first time it’s happened to sportsman racers and likely won’t be the last. It’s a problem, there’s no doubt and we will keep making improvements in the coming years. We just can’t do it all at once. We cannot spend three or four million dollars paving a sportsman pit area that we use one time a year. The economics of our business simply doesn’t allow for it. And I believe the racers can understand that.” Excuse me? I have been attending 3 races per year at that track for at least the last two years (maybe three) and I have yet to park anywhere other than the grass/dirt. It is not just the Spring Nationals that we are out there. It is every race. And there is nothing saying they have to do it all at once. A little effort would go a long way.