OK, my 2 cents about Indy. New grandstands are great (long overdue). Finally a better way for the corporate customers (and all fans) and their guests to have a quality seat just minutes from the Nitro pits. Grade A+.
Speaker (PA) and sound system are just awful. Cannot understands well at all. I checked out the west side also and was still very poor. Needs major overhaul. Grade D-.
We need 3 more video boards. One between the Top Eliminator Club and the west grandstand facing the new grandstand. Another at the end of the west stand facing the new grandstand. And another next to the tower facing the TEC and west grandstand. Then move the existing board closer to the east stand facing the west grandstand. There is room for all of these and if we want to make this a more legit, big time sport, the facilities must be more major league. It would make the downtime much easier to sit through. The drag race fan sits through a whole lot of nothing. Maybe live reports from the pits of the guys who just ran and the problems they had during the run, with video of the repairs in action, etc and better replays. I know there are costs involved but we must step up!
I had a lot of time to think about these during the major cleanups because of Novelli (Friday) and Dakins (Saturday afternoon) major oil downs. We must do a much better job of keeping the paying customer entertained. We have inherent problems that just go with operating a drag race event with all the downtime required to prep the track for different types of cars. The racers must do a better job of containing oil and delays. I bring a couple of new customers and its their first time at a major drag race event and their reaction is always the same. They think its really cool and have lots of questions and are always very impressed. But they also do not understand the very long delays and they lose interest very quickly. It just kills our great sport. And finally, is there really a need for crew chiefs to walk the entire course. I realize its somewhat important, but its really out of hand that anyone remotely associated with a nitro team walks the course. All they are doing is getting in the way of the cleanup crews. Maybe allow 1 member per car and limit it to 100 feet out or so. They cleaned up the Novelli disaster without any help of the crew chiefs and the next pass was Hot Rods 3.88 @ 310. They don't need your help or blessing to get the track back into great shape. Congrats to the Safety Safari on a job well done!
Friday PRO session. Grade D-.
Saturday evening PRO session. Grade A-.
Many great things going on, but we need to keep making this a great experience for the customer.
Just my 2 cents (maybe a nickels worth)
What do you think?
Speaker (PA) and sound system are just awful. Cannot understands well at all. I checked out the west side also and was still very poor. Needs major overhaul. Grade D-.
We need 3 more video boards. One between the Top Eliminator Club and the west grandstand facing the new grandstand. Another at the end of the west stand facing the new grandstand. And another next to the tower facing the TEC and west grandstand. Then move the existing board closer to the east stand facing the west grandstand. There is room for all of these and if we want to make this a more legit, big time sport, the facilities must be more major league. It would make the downtime much easier to sit through. The drag race fan sits through a whole lot of nothing. Maybe live reports from the pits of the guys who just ran and the problems they had during the run, with video of the repairs in action, etc and better replays. I know there are costs involved but we must step up!
I had a lot of time to think about these during the major cleanups because of Novelli (Friday) and Dakins (Saturday afternoon) major oil downs. We must do a much better job of keeping the paying customer entertained. We have inherent problems that just go with operating a drag race event with all the downtime required to prep the track for different types of cars. The racers must do a better job of containing oil and delays. I bring a couple of new customers and its their first time at a major drag race event and their reaction is always the same. They think its really cool and have lots of questions and are always very impressed. But they also do not understand the very long delays and they lose interest very quickly. It just kills our great sport. And finally, is there really a need for crew chiefs to walk the entire course. I realize its somewhat important, but its really out of hand that anyone remotely associated with a nitro team walks the course. All they are doing is getting in the way of the cleanup crews. Maybe allow 1 member per car and limit it to 100 feet out or so. They cleaned up the Novelli disaster without any help of the crew chiefs and the next pass was Hot Rods 3.88 @ 310. They don't need your help or blessing to get the track back into great shape. Congrats to the Safety Safari on a job well done!
Friday PRO session. Grade D-.
Saturday evening PRO session. Grade A-.
Many great things going on, but we need to keep making this a great experience for the customer.
Just my 2 cents (maybe a nickels worth)
What do you think?
produce paid income, hence, that's all we'll see.
