BriarcliffMx
PR Founding Father
It’s the old mentality. It stems from the idea that if nothing else is happening on that weekend then it guarantees it better turnout for race X. I think it’s a misconception . It assumes that all the riders in a given region will race somewhere no matter what. It is false.This is something I don't understand. Why would, or should, the OMA or some other organization, care if a property owner allows races at their facility by another organization? I could understand not scheduling a race when another organization has a race scheduled that is close by. But, if a property owner provides a good track, and people want to race there, why does an organization instruct that owner they can't have other races? Why do the property owners agree to this? Just because some organization says they'll pull their races all together?
Heres what I see and believe to be true. The more tracks we have, within reason, there probably is a limit, the more rider base that is created. The tracks I think create riders near them and sometimes their own clientele. Route 62 and my track are a perfect example. He has his riders and I have mine and we do have crossover riders for sure. Out of all these tracks you create opportunities to attract these riders to your facility. It’s up to you to get them to come. You will never force them to come. Even if they say they had to go it’s in the series, they need the points. That’s still a way that you’ve attracted them. They still decided to go. So back to what your asking, the old racing club era folks believe that any practice or racing event that’s held during their race automatically means that if their racing event turnout suffers, then it’s because so and so had practice or had another event . It’s never we didn’t do a good job creating an event to attract more riders.
So in the past I’ve succumbed to the input of others and told certain tracks that they must run OMA events only. This past year Scott held a Battle. Route 62 is doing a Buckeye Series, but we are also scheduling all of his other races too. But hey I don’t work together with anyone because I’m selfish!