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"The track will choose who's going to win."
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Re: The Daytona 500 @ IMS?
This seems like a whole lot of saber rattling.Originally posted by jp
Seems like it would be awfully cold...
Status of D.I.S. lease in question
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Or possibly bucknife rattling.
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...looks as though the song by Randy Newman, 'It's money that matters' would be appropriate here.a bad day at the race track beats a good day at workComment
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Re: The Daytona 500 @ IMS?
No...they'll just move the Daytona 500 to a new ISC 1.5-mile cookie-cutter track...you know...for the "fans best interest."Originally posted by jp
Seems like it would be awfully cold...Comment
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The article mentions that the Daytona race used to be run on the beach. Was it run in an "oval" back then?One driver's "fuel strategy" is another driver's "speed up or we will park you!"Comment
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More like two drag strips with hairpins on either end. Used US A1A as the backstretch. There is some cool video of it floating around somewhere. Maybe at the Daytona site. . .Originally posted by BlueStang
The article mentions that the Daytona race used to be run on the beach. Was it run in an "oval" back then?"If TF members were given solid gold cars, some would complain about the color." - stnkypete
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BTW, that article is a fascinating read. $16k rent per year? Now that's ROI, baby!
To the Biz Board. . ."If TF members were given solid gold cars, some would complain about the color." - stnkypete
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No need to worry...I'm sure Brian France is on top of the situation.
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If anything comes of this I will be stunned.
As soon as ISC comissions a report saying how much DIS brings to the Daytona Beach economy, they'll come around...http://motorsportsblog.blogspot.com/Comment
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Every few years this kind of thing comes up, first it was off to Tallahassee a dozen years or so ago for tax relief, with the threat of moving all Daytona events to Talladega. Then, when the Dome in St Pete was built, and there was a clamoring for public funds for that and some other stick and ball related venues in the Tampa Bay area, Orlando and Miami, ISC was off to Tallahassee to see if they could get their piece of the pie too, accompanied by yet another thinly veiled threat. All of it is a joke. Daytona Beach and DIS are joined together at the hip, unable to live without one another in the manner they have grown accustomed too, yet they still find it necessary to posture themselves in public. I am sure the county politicians can't wait to see the contract end, to get their hands on all the money they are missing out on, and ISC is in deep dread of how much of a fair price they will have to pay, but it will all be worked out, and the price of seats, fries, burgers and drinks will cover it. You see, whatever the cost, the race fan will pay it, one way or another.Comment
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"You see, whatever the cost, the race fan will pay it, one way or another."
According to some around here NASCAR fans aren't race fans...Comment
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Yep - half was on the beach, half was on the asphalt road that paralleled the beach. The turns were sand.Originally posted by BlueStang
The article mentions that the Daytona race used to be run on the beach. Was it run in an "oval" back then?
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Daytona Rip Offs
I wouldn't be surprised if this thing got ugly.
The community of Daytona Beach has milked racing fans for years, and now they're taking on the track.
I wouldn't blame NASCAR and ISC if they said, "Fine, here's the track," then build a new one in some other Florida community that doesn't want to gouge them, and moved all their races to the new track.
I quit going to the Daytona 500 this year.
I'm no fan of International Speedway Corporation, but it was the community, not the track or NASCAR, that I'm fed up with.
While ticket and food prices at the track are at fair market value, everything else in the community is a rip off. They keep increasing room prices and extending the minimun stay. Meanwhile, the hotels, and service, deteriorate. Parking around the track is out of control. $50 or more. It used to be free to park in the mall across the street, and they opened early and had great business. Now, they charge big money to park, and the mall isn't near as crowded.
The fact that the Daytona 500 didn't sell out until the last minute, other Speedweeks attendance was down, and rooms were empty can be blamed on greed of the community, not the problems NASCAR has.Comment
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Make ISC pay their fair share, like everyone else.My major malfunction is...I want the people I love and respect to live forever...The problem is...Life don't work that way...
P.S. Questions, comments, death threats, invitations to a pigs bris, my number is still (317) 809-4483Comment
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What Mackie said....
What they are really arguing over is whether to increase ticket prices or hotel taxes.
That's what it boils down to.Comment
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