Dudemandude

As many of us wonder what would be away to help these race tracks make more money though out the season. I have recently started getting more into Youtube finding some youtubers that i find entertaining and watching alot of racing videos on youtube. With that being said i also found out that these Youtubers make a pretty ridiculous amount of money. some of them make 7 figures a year off of videos.

Now it all depends on views and ad time and all that. With the racing community being what it is and how supportive they can be i am shocked that the race tracks don't have youtube channels. They could make weekly highlight videos they could live stream their weekly program they could do driver profiles with sponsored ad's that generate revenue all year round for the track. do off season vlogs of whats going on around the track and whats all in the works for the schedule and soo on.

It just seems like a big chunk of money is being missed out on. Of course the community would have to be the people watching and sharing and helping advertise these videos but it could be a huge chunk of money for these race tracks that might help them stay in business may help bring some money to the purses of the local tracks may help bring in sponsorship money if they see that their business will be advertised on a video that could be viewed by hundreds of thousands of people...maybe i'm wrong and none of this would ever work but i have searched and i do not see many if any tracks that really take youtube seriously as a source of revenue.

I mean realistically who doesn't have a smart phone with the youtube app installed on it? how many of us wouldn't enjoy being able to go to every local track's youtube page and seeing a weekly highlight series or full programs on youtube. i know there's probably plenty of men and women over seas that would love to be able to see what their local friends are doing at the track every week or the folks with health problems that can't make it to the track every week that would be able to pull out there phone or turn on their computer and see the races.

So i just want to start out by saying that i am absolutely ashamed of western PA race fans. I went to the speedweeks show at wayne county and they didn't start their all star feature till 11 o'clock doing a pretty extensive bit of track prep in between The race wasn't over till almost midnight and outta that packed house that was there i didn't hear hardly anyone complaining about the time being taken to make a better racing surface. The race wasn't the greatest but as a fan i was appreciative of the fact that they took the time to try to put on the best show possible i had to be up the next day to go to work i knew that when i went and i wasn't expecting to be home at decent hour when i went.

Then the very next night at Sharon Speedway Tony didn't like that track and he wanted some track work done before the feature. The fans start shouting about how long its taking to get the race going and so and so forth. Those same fans that would have bitched about the track conditions if they didn't do the track prep. So what are they supposed to do. We as fans need to have a little bit of patients when it comes to the track surface if we want to see some good racing and get our moneys worth out of the deal. Not to mention the drivers deserve to have the best track surface to race on.

Then there's last night at Mercer. Now just about everytime i get on this site i see people on here complaining about how dusty it is at mercer and how they need to water the track and do more track prep. So they did that last night and people complain about how long it takes to get the show done....its a Saturday night on the 4th of july weekend what do you need to rush home for? Be glad we get to see the racing we get to see. i was personally really glad to see them take the time do some track prep i honestly wish they would have done more prep to the track and put a little more water to it i love to see a good race at mercer when that tracks right it can produce some amazing races.

I guess the moral of this is what do you think a track is supposed to do? how are they supposed to give the fans the conditions they want to see and do it in a blazing fast timely manner for you upset racing fans that have to sit there? Now ill admit playing some music that isn't from the 50's might help. Having a good working PA system that can find some way to keep the little ones entertained or maybe make the fans not realize that as much time is passing because they are entertained by other things could help. I'm not sure what it is i don't know if its the track or the fans that need to change but somethings need to break. i can remember being a little kid not leaving the track till after midnight. it was a given that we were going to be there all night.