r1crusher Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 Com'on Keith! You're so smooooooth! I know you have some pull! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd0583 Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 so pumped for mido! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbot Posted October 26, 2011 Report Share Posted October 26, 2011 i think if todd pulled together some numbers (ie grid sizes) and was given a chance to present to the decision makers at grattan,midoh,etc they would give them a shot or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiggy74 Posted October 27, 2011 Report Share Posted October 27, 2011 (edited) Signatures are nice, but dollars are what will make it happen. There are only a finite number of available weekend dates during rideable/spring/summer/early fall for these tracks. Most of them are already booked and are practically guaranteed to that organization (both cars and bikes) each subsequent year. The few dates that are available are either in cruddy times parts of the year or conflict with other things going on. So even if there is an available date, Todd also has to make sure that it doesn't conflict with an existing event on the schedule, including non-Motoseries events like AMA MidOhio, Indy GP, etc. So actually picking dates at new tracks that work with the existing schedule can be difficult. Even if you could pick the ideal date, you are still probably going to pick a date that's already claimed by another customer of the track. So to really compete with the incumbent organizers for these dates you at the very least have to show that you are going to bring in more business for the track than the incumbent date holder, and even that might not be good enough. For example, STT runs what a dozen or so events at Grattan, nearly all if not all are sold out. That's tough competition. Grattan probably isn't likely to piss off STT to give Motoseries one or two event because STT consistently brings in a ton of RELIABLE business for the track. I'm hoping that given the poor WERA turnouts from this past year that maybe some of their dates come available. Would be really interesting to see Motoseries buy up all the NC WERA events (except for the additional Nelson rounds). But who knows. Either way, it's going to take lots more than a petition. Edited October 27, 2011 by kiggy74 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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