I got my new circle track yesterday and I picked it up when I ate lunch a while ago and I thought I’d share this article. Bob…
Great minds think alike! I read the same article today, but I think that Bob Bolles absolutely missed it.
The tracks depend on the racer in order to survive and it is about time they realize that.
Always and everywhere, tracks and racers depend on each other. There can be no racing as we know it if one of these factors is missing. Sadly, some short tracks are proving that fans are the least important aspect piece of the puzzle. This article implies that tracks need to bow down to the racer; it sounds like an adolescent who demands that their parent straighten up and do things the kids way.
Maybe the authors intent was swing the pendulum back from the extreme where the tracks did order us around to0 much and did expect a royal butt kissing for the priviledge of racing. If so, then I agree to a point. But there is no getting around the fact that racers AND tracks are equally important in the big picture. If I correctly recall my high school science, “symbiotic ralationship” is the term for two things that can only exist with the cooperation of the other.
Thats what I got out of it Rex. That tracks and racers need to work together to effect a program that is beneficial. I have long held that tracks shouldnt dictate rules. Why should a track care about the rules? Unless they have a pony in the show and thats a debate for another day. In the 70’s and 80’s we had rules meetings for each class just after the season ended and the track I was at let the drivers agree on the rules and they held those rules all the following season. I guess the ecomomy was different but there was a bumper crowd in each class and no body could complain about the rules because they set them.
talked to my brother in Pennsylvania yesterday. He said all the dirt tracks have shut down this last year in his area. They would pack in the fans and cars but didn’t pay squat to the drivers…the show…No more dirt cars in yards and on farms anymore. But the only asphalt track is boomin’. Seems they pay for a show and being the only one left, is doing quite well. I saw the article too. Some right, some not so right.
-JIM-
Well I re read and I do agree with most of it. He did say that the tracks need the racers to survive. Don’t you think so? No drivers no race. I also agree with Rex its got to be a mutual thing.
Will Someone Please Show This To Don Nerone???
HaHa I am sure he’s seen it by now.
it was good but i think we could do without a few of them. you know who… HA HA HA
that apple needs to rot in some one elses basket not mine. so many good racers and frends and i got a fat head non racer like this. grow up boy
Don62
I agree that some of the rules they think save the racer money actualy do just the oppsite. Example, the no bump stop rule and no bleeder rule in mod. and sportsman classes. Bleeders helped me get one more race out of a set of tires, and bump stops are a lot cheaper than trying to use coil bind. Just my two cents.
[QUOTE=Don Nerone;60325]it was good but i think we could do without a few of them. you know who… HA HA HA
that apple needs to rot in some one elses basket not mine. so many good racers and frends and i got a fat head non racer like this. grow up boy
Don62[/QUOTE]
You need to re-read that article, the entire mentality of what that explains, I think whoever wrote it was describing you. You even went so far as to make some of the statements mentioned in drivers meetings, I know, I was there. So you can stop the back stepping anytime, you’ve stood up there telling us all of that crap and you know it. I do hope the non racer comment isn’t directed at me, because again, you would be wrong. Tell you what old man, if you show up at the big PASS race at Wilkesboro I’ll pay your way in and maybe let you hang with the crew.
Flabbyss64rock98 hike
back steping??? though u said u knew me. Ask someone that does.
old man
Don62