How do we promote sportsman type racing?

Ron Middleton · 10-21-2011, 02:58 PM

Heads up raing will help as far as spectators understanding the racing. And heads up in Stock is sure a lot cheaper than heads up in many of the outlaw classes.

Stock/Superstock, the .90 classes and bracket racing are too hard for the casual oberserver to understand or get interested in. Cultivating a spectator market and more heads up runs or probably even something along Comp's CIC would help. Most people could understand a 4cyl car can't beat a 427 early Camaro in a heads up race but they sure don't see the logic in running too fast and breaking out. I think a lot of spectators might even get a kick out of watching the chase and seeing the slower car win or the faster car chase it down but then to lose because they ran too fast? WTF is most of them are thinking. I'm not sure if there is any other racing on the planet where you can be legal and still lose being the first across the finish line. JMT

10-21-2011, 02:58 PM	#11
Ron Middleton Member Join Date: Jan 1970 Location: Jackson, Ms. Posts: 350 Likes: 183 Liked 12 Times in 4 Posts	Re: How do we promote sportsman type racing? Heads up raing will help as far as spectators understanding the racing. And heads up in Stock is sure a lot cheaper than heads up in many of the outlaw classes. Stock/Superstock, the .90 classes and bracket racing are too hard for the casual oberserver to understand or get interested in. Cultivating a spectator market and more heads up runs or probably even something along Comp's CIC would help. Most people could understand a 4cyl car can't beat a 427 early Camaro in a heads up race but they sure don't see the logic in running too fast and breaking out. I think a lot of spectators might even get a kick out of watching the chase and seeing the slower car win or the faster car chase it down but then to lose because they ran too fast? WTF is most of them are thinking. I'm not sure if there is any other racing on the planet where you can be legal and still lose being the first across the finish line. JMT __________________ #4892 J/SA. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle