asked what track operators, NASCAR and TV networks needed to do to make your experience as a race fan more enjoyable and keep you coming back and you answered.
There were many suggestions. I selected 10 key items for the NASCAR Fan’s Bill of Rights. Ticket prices aren’t mentioned because tracks are lowering those. Plus, amendements can always be added to this. Check out the link to the Bill of Rights and let me know what you think there (or here) and if anything needs to be added.
This was done as part of our preseason package on how this is “The Year of the Fan” in NASCAR. The point is that in no recent time is the fan’s voice as important and has as much power as this year…Â More info
NASCAR’s track attendance and revenue may be stalling, but top drivers’ paychecks continued to climb last year, thanks to large, multiyear sponsorship deals and heavy spending on apparel and gear by loyal fans. Overall, earnings for the top 10 drivers were $180 million, up 4.7% from our previous list.
Winning is not always the most important factor to making money. Top drivers generate between 8% and 31% of their earnings from the track. The rest comes from salary, licensing and sponsorships…Â More info
A day off at Daytona is a hard thing to bear.
It’s not the silence from the speedway — the peace and quiet is nice enough, here in the middle of Speedweeks.
The trouble is, today — with the Shootout crowd gone and the larger crowds for the qualifying races and the Daytona 500 still to come — is too strong a reminder of day-to-day Daytona Beach, when the races aren’t in town.
This isn’t exactly Margaritaville down here, and driving up and down the beach highway, A-1-A, is hardly a pleasure cruise. Daytona Beach and its suburbs aren’t exactly boomtowns. They are weary, faded, salt-corroded.
So I’ve drifted back down to the south, to my hotel in Port Orange, to blog with my sliding-glass door open, to see and hear the endless sea, which eases the sadness of workaday Daytona…Â More info
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New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) With a slow yet loud heartbeat of the engine, a melodious gurgle of the carburetor and a careening sway of the wheels complimenting the post-Edwardian restored body – the aged but timeless vintage beauties dazzled the onlookers and passersby on Delhi roads Sunday as part of the 43rd Statesman Vintage and Classic car rally.
Ranging from the 80 HP John Morris 1914 – the oldest in the lot of 136 entries – to improved versions since 1919 like the Citroen, Wolseley, Cadillac, and Dodge to name a few, the evergreen maidens sprinkled the mundane roads of the capital and its neighbourhood with colour, passion and history.
Flagged off by Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta on the chilly but sunlit morning, the 98 cars that managed to hit the roads traversed a route mapped anew since the rally’s inception in 1964 before rolling out to their land of mystery at the sunset… More infoÂ
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