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Hmmm...All those years racing and you are just starting to notice the dust? If you got tired of complaining about the track for all those years, why did you come back? If you think water is the answer maybe you should talk to Gene and let him enlighten you, or maybe you should just go to Indiana and watch racing. Move on!RacingChicky:....Please You posted, there for you have gotten into it.
I have seen more races at Eldora in less than 1 of the old HBO weeks than you have ever seen there.....let alone going clear back to 1972, so please don't waste your time telling me about races, racing, dirt track racing, where to sit, etc, etc.... I practically grew up there.
Sorry skip, I don't go to the races to drink beer, or to eat hot dogs.........
I was on Racestud for years, and got tired of your blind defense of mediocrity. I was also tired or rushing to make it to Lima on a Friday, just to be severely disappointed in what I had spent my money on...so I have been going to other tracks for the last few years. I remember you saying that you pretty much only went to Lima, and sometimes Eldora and at that time only 1 or 2 times to Waynesfield. People were telling you to go to Gas City, Haubstadt, Kokomo, or even Bloomington, to see what a real dirt track was prepped like....and you wouldn't do it!!!
Don't try to twist the facts around Skip...several years ago you -were not- one of the people raising hell about the track conditions.....you were doing your same old cheerleading routine for LMP.
I was one of the people raising hell about the actual track conditions, and saying people didn't pay their money to go to a place with fancy restrooms, etc, they paid to see races. You however, wanted to continually tell about how the old Limaland was a hole, and how you would walk across a plant to go take a leak, so we all should be happy because the 'new LMP' was such a great facility. You were almost as big of a cheerleader for LMP as David Hale was.
The rest of you who 'just don't get it', are no better. It's not my fault you have never seen a -good track-....wet, tacky, no dust all night....to know the difference. Maybe it's time to go to a few different places and broaden your horizons. Then again, you could just keep going to the same ol' places, get a dirt bath, and wallow in your 'it doesn't get any better than this' sillyness.
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In Topic: Dry/Dusty on top....but they watered the wall?!
05 July 2009 - 09:30 AM
Do you really think that the little splash of water they put on the track is going to knock the dust down? This time of year your gonna have more dust. When was the last time you walked the track after a race? It's not bone dry, it's pretty soft and tacky. So where is the dust coming from? Maybe from 750 hp or 850 hp rocketships flying around a dirt track. Drive by Lima or any other dirt track for an All-star or Woo show and see how many people are there, a bunch! I know some REAL fans who check the weather to see which way the wind is blowing. That way they might sit in a different seat to avoid some dust. But most of us sit in our regular seat every week and enjoy great racing. And when it's over we stand up, brush off a little dirt, and walk out talking about the great show we just saw. As far as when the season ends, check out some of the other tracks around here and see how many of them end around labor day weekend. You don't think drivers and their crews don't like to watch H.S. football or have family members in scholl activities?. What about the good people who work at the track every Friday? I bet some of them like football. It's a good idea for the fans and drivers and that makes it a good idea for the track.Skip, with your kind of attitude, I don't want to see you cry about not many fans being in the stands.... You are no different than Frickie telling car owners and drivers "If you don't like it, leave"........
But then again, I have seen you cry and make excuses about the lack of cars in the pits, and fans in the stands. It's not so much the economy, as it is the way people are treated, if they felt they got their money's worth, and if they enjoyed being there. Telling people 'If you don't like it, leave', pretty much guarantees you that they will...and they probably won't come back.
But, most of your posts are fluff anyway. You act like everything is perfect as long as you can stuff your face with a hot dog
They sell goggles because track operators are too lazy to use the water truck. Look at pictures of races in the 20s and 30s....Men is suits, women in fancy dresses with big hats, pit crews all wearing white. It was an EVENT. They raced in the daytime, and back then they used oil on the track... Why you ask?...TO KEEP THE DUST DOWN!! Maybe they should have just sold goggles and told the people 'hey, it's a dirt track, what do you expect'. Are people now supposed to go to the races looking like they just climbed out of the gutter?...that way when they leave looking like they rolled around in a farm field, nobody can tell??
The end result of the cocky 'it's a dirt track, so like the dust and quit bitching' stupidity, will be that the tracks will die, because nobody is in the stands. Why do you think Lima ends the season when HS football starts???? Because the crowd drops off on Friday nights genius.
A guy wouldn't be happy if he bought a 12 pack of beer and six of the cans were empty, you aren't happy if your car is broke down 15 days out of 30, you wouldn't be happy if you paid to have your yard fertilized and half of it is green but the other half is brown...........but you pay to watch races, and can only see half of the main attraction because of the dust, and you should be happy.......that's asinine!
