Crates at I-55

1mower said:
With all due respect to Ray and Kenny. Your car count has been falling off the last few years. Maybe its the economy, maybe its your payout, I don't know . If you don't keep up with the changes in racing and realize why one of the best tracks has been struggling the last 3 years, your in trouble. Bringing a different class to your track would only help your weekly program and will give guys a chance to run your track that normally wouldn't and they will come back. How could you not consider bring in a class that could carry 20 plus cars every week? Gonna have to change something guys.... Cause your weekly shows last year of 14-16 LM, !8-22 MODS, 18-20 Sportsman Isn't gonna keep fans coming back...
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If anyone knows what a dirt track needs to be successful it's Schrader. I have no clue nor is it any of my business, but hopefully, he's not an absentee owner.
 
I totally agree with hooker. Macon I think did an incentive like that. Would bring more cars. I have an old terd of a crate and I still choose to run with supers 90% of the time and do decent. Supers pay better and I learn way more racing with them.
 
TNracefan... I-55 use to get 24-25 LM, 35-40 MODS, 25-30 sportsman. Things have obviously taking a downward spin. It's just an idea.
 
thefarmer said:
Some dryslick racing can be decent. But most of the time when a track is dryslick it is one lane suck a** racing with dust so thick you can't see anything.. Which in turn results in empty seats!
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There is a massive difference between a track that is dry slick, and a track that is rubbered up. A rubbered up track is one lane, and will usually eat right rear tires alive. Some of the best racing I've ever seen is on a dry slick track, with 3 grooves. Not every track has to be heavy, hammer down, put on the top and let it rip. In fact, when it's all about motor, I'm bored.

Anyone who has seen the black ice at West Plains during the Show-Me 100 knows what I'm talking about.
 
I agree. If you watch the lap times you see the averages in the 17 seconds range. At mid point in the race when the track dries out(thin layer of dust on track) they cars slow to the 19 second range and when the track rubbers up(black and shiny) the laps times quicken to 18 seconds but its only in one groove where the dust has been blown off. If you leave the groove to pass you instead get passed.

Laps times are for demonstration purpose only.
 
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