Divisional spectator attendance?

[Ed Wright]

Locally, more come to watch the "10.5 heads up " shows, than points races. Nobody watches the weekly bracket races.

[ss wannabee]

Willing to bet that most of those fans at New England came for the Sat. Night show
.....and drove in with a car or truck NOT made by the original "Big-3" automakers...

Sadly...I think the only way you'll put people in the stands at Divisionals is to combine
with a bit of a show...like they did there.

[Rich Biebel]

Maple Grove had a fairly big crowd of spectators at the Division race in May.

$25 per car no matter how many people in it.

Alcohol cars and some pretty lame jet cars that were the worst I've ever seen.....and Fireworks after that.

Numidia also gets a lot of spectators for Fireworks.....but these are areas out in the countryside where there is not much going on.

[Mike Jones]

The cashier at the WaWa near Atco told me that when they held the Honda Show, there was a line to get into her store!!
The youngsters like the tuners
Its what they drive.


Mike
A114 P/SA

[barnca2010]

One of the things that could help.. When they get to the round robin portion of the show... Run a clock or something.. Having 15 or more minutes between runs grinds things to a halt... At least that is how it seemed today.. Not only myself, but some of my fellow photogs felt the same way.. slowing the show down, unless there is an obvious thing such as an accident or an oil down... Doesn't help keep peoples attention..

[Lee Valentine]

15 minutes between rounds is needed, you build a 20,000 dallar super stock engine and see if you can turn around any faster.

[John Kelley]

What turns me off.......throttle stop cars.! A few of those get BORING quick !!
Comp isn't like it used to be....the diggers and altereds have given wat to "junior" pro stockers.......Now I might make one divisional a year and usually at Noble...

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by barnca2010

Run a clock or something.. Having 15 or more minutes between runs grinds things to a halt... At least that is how it seemed today.. Not only myself, but some of my fellow photogs felt the same way.. slowing the show down, unless there is an obvious thing such as an accident or an oil down... Doesn't help keep peoples attention..

You and your fellow photographers evidently do not have a $30,000, 9,000 RPM big block Super Stock engine that requires cooling, fueling, and maintenance between rounds, not to mention charging the batteries.

Honestly, 15 minutes is not enough to even turn the stocker around.

A heads up run will take even longer.

It's about that hard for a fast Super class car as well.


Now, if you want to talk about a little better scheduling and organization, so that the classes can be separated a little and keep the time between passes down some, sure. But punishing expensive equipment is not a viable option.

[barnca2010]

they defiantly need to do something to keep things moving.. again you cant account for accidents/oil downs whatever... spacing the classes would be nice for all.