New rules for Maple Grove Raceway competitors

My thoughts exactly!!!!

Originally Posted by SC1317

If this is all in response to the problems from the bracket finals, look what we're talking about. 50-75% of the racers that attend the brackets don't travel. This is probably the only time they leave their home track! They all want to party and things get crazy. Most of us that travel (most) know how far we can take it...and are professional lushes, why should we all be punished for the stupidity that happens every year at the bracket finals?

[John Warehime]

Kids(under 16 with no license) driving motorized vehicles in the pits are a problem. I saw a child about 8-9 years old driving around in a golf cart at Maple Grove, and when I told the adult, (in the passenger side), that you need a drivers license to opperate a golf cart he said "he's with me". I told him that doesn't matter. This goof let the kid drive on the wrong side of the road, and was not looking where he was going. The next time I will just go straight to the NHRA. In the USA we drive on the RIGHT, A**HOLE!!! NHRA please through these A-HOLES out!!! If one of these idiots hits anything I own, It's going to get ugly in a hurry. Let your kids play on a playground, not at a dragstrip.

[Bill Bagley]

I'm not in your guy's neck of the woods, but I sure hate to see things like this happen. I'm sure it will eventually work its way this direction.

Fact is, liability is a reality and its truly amazing how today's judicial system works. A creative plaintiff's attorney can turn the perpetrator into the victim in a heartbeat and track owners are ultimately forced to do something to mitigate their risks .. such ashame.

[BKSG1198]

They actually have enforced these rules at Cecil County earlier this year. I guess some kids were fooling around on a golf cart and rolled it. One of the bars went into the kids head and he had to have something like 90+ staples put into his head (Now I maybe wrong, just the story I heard from the Cecil officials and some of the local racers). I guess there was no officials or security on the track site when this happen and they had to have him air-lifted to the hospital. We went down for the Super Gas association race in July and we finished about 6pm. Of course if anyone has been to our Cecil S/G race Uncle Buck has the Giant Pig Roast. As we were getting on our bike to drive over to the BBQ one of the officials came over to us and told us "Hope your not planning to drive that bike over there" we were like yeah it's a long drive and then he was like "Don't plan on racing tomorrow then" we were like ???. He was like "now that racing is done for the night all pit bikes/golf carts/etc must be put away for the night". If you are caught on one you will be suspended from racing the next day. So we made the long walk on foot to the BBQ and they made several mentions on the PA to put all bikes away or don't race tomorrow.

I do agree with John on this subject, there are way too many young young kids who are driving around on Mini-Bikes/Golf Carts. It sucks cause they make us buy the NHRA motorized pit sticker to enforce it but nobody ever really does. I knew when I saw the e-mail come out yesterday from Lex that something must have happen at the bracket finals and it just really sucks for the people who travel all over to get the rules slapped on them because of non-traveling racers act up at one race and act like idiots.

[chevy620]

The rule that the track CANNOT or WILL NOT send out checks that YOU , THE CUSTOMER, has earned is probably pretty close to theft.
If I was them, I would try to treat customers like they are the ones that bring in the cash....oh wait, we ARE THE ONES WHO BRING IN THE MONEY. Seems way too many track operators and especially NHRA has overlooked that one "little thing". Without us, the customers, their jobs would just go away.

WOW! How do you protect people from STUPID? Insurance companies have been trying to figure that out for years. Now they just admit they do offer coverage for STUPID.

C'mon, get real. Keep the kids off motorized vehicles, require lights and if you act STUPID, toss them out. If you are capable of driving around after 9pm in a golf cart you should be able to.

More rules, sure way to fix everything, right?

Jok

[7820]

Fontana also has that rule. 60 minutes after racing no golf carts, scooters, etc, etc. Some dummy ran into the track manager after a race earlier this year.

[Scotty D]

i wonder if maple grove will tell john force he cant use his scooter after 9pm.

[buzzinhalfdozen]

At the Northern Sports nats. last weekend there were some kids doing donuts and in general acting up on a golfcart not far from my pit area. I told myself not to go over and read them the riot act thinking whom ever they were with would see them and put a stop to it.Well they tried every way to roll that cart and never did thankfully. I really didn't want to get these kids in trouble, however if given the chance again I'd go get an official and let them deal with the kids. We like to go visit and ride around a bit after the racing is over I'd hate for some stupid actions of kids make me have to walk everywhere. I'm for having fun but we all have to be responsible for ours and our freinds and kids actions at the track it's easy for them if they get kicked out they just go away and don't have to come back. So please be responsible and report any antics to the track....wish I had. Joe

[Ed Fernandez]

Watch for the requests for handicap permits skyrocket now.Don't get me wrong if you need a handicap exemption you should get it.The rest can use the two feet God gave them.

[Chris1529]

Do any of you have kids that are on here saying that kids should'nt be on pit vehicles? I don't have any kids, but I know for a fact that I could handle a golfcart when I was 8-9 because I was already using a lawn tractor to mow my parents grass.

Parents that know their kids should make this decision, not the track owners.

I have been to tracks that don't allow kids to ride bicycles. how fair is that? They can strap into a Jr dragster, but can't even ride a bike for fun or execrise during the down time.

and if you want to see people doing stupid things on a golf cart, just go to your local golf course especially when they have a scramble, or some type of tournament.. talk about a bunch of crazy drunks??

and also, if the track is sponsoring some sort of Bar B que, or feed, or party, why would they not let you ride a vehicle to it? what if you were pitted far away?

Track owners need to realize who the customers are.

and no I am not one of the crazies on a golf cart at three in the morning. but I think we are entitled to use our pit vehicles as we see fit whether that be going to see friends or a feed after the race, or going to the church service at 730 the next morning.