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Don Kennedy · 06-13-2010, 09:47 AM

I even agree to a certain extend if a racer is a sponsor of some sort ,but I have seen a "racer sponsoring the parking people "to the extend that the parking person called this racer to see if a racer could park in a certain area??? what is this all about hmm looks like some sort of under the table assistance or in some areas it is called a bribe? One race track we were first in line and the parking person actually had to the nerve to call the Drag strip manager to see who could park where and the manager had the nerve to say on the radio ,as we heard it hold on let me call the other racer to see if we can park this racer there > wow Were we blown away , if we had not towed 800 miles one way to race I would have simply left but after a fight we got to park where we wanted to . Now this is not the way to run a track especially if the track only has minimum amount of so called " clean" pit spaces meaning no dirt, no hills etc. Now that is another story about the pit parking .

In My opinion the Number One problem and responsibility of a track strip is to make sure the racers have a good pit space .cause the very first thing just about everyone wants is a good pit space , if this wasn't not true then why does everyone get there early ??? NHRA and The drag strip personnel always says why does everyone get to the track early dud your track does not have enough "clean" pit space for YOUR customers ,very simple take care of your customers to make sure they are happy seems to me to be a sure thing to success with more income coming in for your business >

another situation that really cracks us up is how the parking person saids follow me to the pit space and then proceeds to guided you in between the lines like we as racers can't park our selves ??? I don't like a person to be my so called guider as i had a bad guider one time on my new Goldrush and he caused as i was so called relying on him to watch well he guided me right into a scratch in the side of my trailer , so parking people say this racer park between the lines no overhang into the other person pit and leave go get some one else to park is very simple, NO Overhang of your kick outs into the other racers pit space ,you move your rv in your space don't make me hit your kick out in my pit space is just common sense

06-13-2010, 09:47 AM	#22
Don Kennedy VIP Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Near Portland TN Posts: 1,590 Likes: 3,876 Liked 902 Times in 237 Posts	Re: Parking - The Real Story I even agree to a certain extend if a racer is a sponsor of some sort ,but I have seen a "racer sponsoring the parking people "to the extend that the parking person called this racer to see if a racer could park in a certain area??? what is this all about hmm looks like some sort of under the table assistance or in some areas it is called a bribe? One race track we were first in line and the parking person actually had to the nerve to call the Drag strip manager to see who could park where and the manager had the nerve to say on the radio ,as we heard it hold on let me call the other racer to see if we can park this racer there > wow Were we blown away , if we had not towed 800 miles one way to race I would have simply left but after a fight we got to park where we wanted to . Now this is not the way to run a track especially if the track only has minimum amount of so called " clean" pit spaces meaning no dirt, no hills etc. Now that is another story about the pit parking . In My opinion the Number One problem and responsibility of a track strip is to make sure the racers have a good pit space .cause the very first thing just about everyone wants is a good pit space , if this wasn't not true then why does everyone get there early ??? NHRA and The drag strip personnel always says why does everyone get to the track early dud your track does not have enough "clean" pit space for YOUR customers ,very simple take care of your customers to make sure they are happy seems to me to be a sure thing to success with more income coming in for your business > another situation that really cracks us up is how the parking person saids follow me to the pit space and then proceeds to guided you in between the lines like we as racers can't park our selves ??? I don't like a person to be my so called guider as i had a bad guider one time on my new Goldrush and he caused as i was so called relying on him to watch well he guided me right into a scratch in the side of my trailer , so parking people say this racer park between the lines no overhang into the other person pit and leave go get some one else to park is very simple, NO Overhang of your kick outs into the other racers pit space ,you move your rv in your space don't make me hit your kick out in my pit space is just common sense __________________ Don Kennedy 7701 SS Last edited by Don Kennedy; 06-13-2010 at 09:55 AM.