"Live" from Joliet 2013

[Larry Hill]

Sorry about the quality of the video! I still don't quite have the hang of videoing with my cell phone. Is there a way to zoom on a cell phone video?

[Chris Hill]

Originally Posted by Dan Bernay

Don't see anything to click on.
Am I missing something?

Click on the bold text in my signature.

[BKSG1198]

Chicago always looks like a ghost town everytime I see it on TV. I think when they built Route 66 it was during the stadium style craze with seating and the economy was good. I mean Chicago may have had the same amount of people as Epping did but, Epping has smaller grandstands (Maybe 20 rows high) that spread people out along the race track and makes it look full for the TV. Trust me from the reports I heard from people Epping WAS PACKED. Chicago is like 50 rows high so even if they draw a good crowd it looks bare. Maybe It's time for some of this tracks that have that type of seating to look into downgrading. I heard Daytona is knocking down all the back stretch grandstands in a renovation project so that they can fill everyone in on the front stretch to make it look like a bigger crowd for the 500.

Remember Chicago used to have 2 NHRA Nationals but, they took 1 away because they said they didn't draw a crowd.

Thanks once again Larry and Patsy for doing the live reporting, maybe one day you'll make a wrong turn and come East to E-Town or Maple Grove!

[Geerhead55]

Originally Posted by BKSG1198

Chicago always looks like a ghost town everytime I see it on TV. I think when they built Route 66 it was during the stadium style craze with seating and the economy was good. I mean Chicago may have had the same amount of people as Epping did but, Epping has smaller grandstands (Maybe 20 rows high) that spread people out along the race track and makes it look full for the TV. Trust me from the reports I heard from people Epping WAS PACKED. Chicago is like 50 rows high so even if they draw a good crowd it looks bare. Maybe It's time for some of this tracks that have that type of seating to look into downgrading. I heard Daytona is knocking down all the back stretch grandstands in a renovation project so that they can fill everyone in on the front stretch to make it look like a bigger crowd for the 500.

Remember Chicago used to have 2 NHRA Nationals but, they took 1 away because they said they didn't draw a crowd.

Thanks once again Larry and Patsy for doing the live reporting, maybe one day you'll make a wrong turn and come East to E-Town or Maple Grove!

It could happen,,,, they once made a wrong turn and ended up in Seattle! For their efforts,, they were handed a west coast rule book and a bottle of one of our local wines,, a fair trade I think.
Danny Durham

[bigshow2966]

Originally Posted by BKSG1198

Remember Chicago used to have 2 NHRA Nationals but, they took 1 away because they said they didn't draw a crowd.

Actually, RT 66 gave it away because they didn't want it in the first place. The facility manager himself told me they were afraid it would simply split the crowd from the first race into 2 crowds, it would not draw double the people. That was before the second event occurred, and he was right.

[Lyn Smith]

Actually i thought the crowd at Rt 66 over the weekend was one of the better ones they have had in a few years.There are quite a few fans standing along the track,and quite a few along motor homes on the north side of the track.Those tall grand stands always look empty.

[FED 387]

Regarding RT 66 ---the week or should I say weeks before this race we had an enormous amount of rain like the Wettest April -Wettest May and Wettest June in history--- it poured it did not sprinkle -the ground is totally saturated--- people had flooding where there never was flooding and they flooded----some people are still bailing out--- this is probaly a major reason for the low turnout PLUS the forecast was not great and it did rain!!!
But there is no excuse for NO PROMOTION!!! the Nascar track has been running ads on TV,radio and the major Newspapers for a coupla months for their races why not NHRA???

[Larry Hill]

Yeah, Danny, that was great wine and we still have the West Coast rulebook. That was a great trip! Might do it again some day. But the East Coast is a different thing. We thought about going up to Epping, but then we went on a cruise last fall that started in NYC and went to Boston and other places on the east coast. Larry decided then he didn't want to fight all that traffic!

[Geerhead55]

Can't fault you for going on a cruise,, its one of our favorite things to do also. You two are living the dream, so keep it up and we all enjoy the "Live From" reports,,, take care.
Danny Durham

[Greg Barsamian]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

Yeah, Danny, that was great wine and we still have the West Coast rulebook. That was a great trip! Might do it again some day. But the East Coast is a different thing. We thought about going up to Epping, but then we went on a cruise last fall that started in NYC and went to Boston and other places on the east coast. Larry decided then he didn't want to fight all that traffic!

You missed a GREAT PLACE & A GREAT RACE!
You are an hour from the great mountains of New Hampshire, 45 minutes away from Kittery Maine, and 20 minutes from the boardwalk at Hampton Beach.
and on the way you could have lunch at "Larry's Clam Bar" on Rt 125 in Plastow!

Plan on it for next year!