North Georgia Speedway results 9-10-11

[Ford motorsports]

Crate Late Model:
Andy Pickleseimer
#7
Derek ellis
Aaron wheat

Limited late model:
Shannon Bearden
Brian Jackson
Todd Hernandez


Also North Georgia's final race of the year will be september 24th. Everyone come out and support the track hope to have a lot of fans.

[acetone]

good racing tonight

[stevo]

Are they really cutting supers short so 99 can win the points ?

[acetone]

Are they really cutting supers short so 99 can win the points ?

thats crazy

[skinnyracer39]

points

Are they really cutting supers short so 99 can win the points ?

boy you can come up with some crazy ideas cant you ,no its a business decision on that .

[blackcloud]

If everyone that would like to see super late models run would help support the track by inviting new potential fans to attend then maybe they could bring the class back as an every Sat. night class. As it stands the economy is killing the super late model shows at all the surrounding tracks as a regular show. It takes aprox. 400 fans in the stands to pay the super late model purse on a regular show night. If we want to keep this great sport of dirt track racing alive we have all got to do our part to introduce it to people that may have never attended the sport that most of us love. The economy has put a huge financial burden on the car owners, racers, fans and tracks alike, but I do understand that smart business decisions have to be made in order to keep the gates open.

[Ford motorsports]

Yeah they have to have 400 fans to pay. They are not cutting slm to save money.

[Superman_Racing]

Luckily Tri-County has been blessed with a good SLM field most of the season this year. Now the fact that they only race every other week may have something to do with that I dont know but its working for them. The last few times they have raced they have had 15, 18, 17, and 14 SLM show up. And the racing this year has been exciting for sure. I was worried the crowd would shrink too with them running against friday night football but they had a home game on friday and the stands definetly had lots of people in the seats.

I hope they can get the SLM back at NGA because I have seen tracks go down hill after cutting them out of the show like the shape tri-county was in last season. But if not it looks like sugar creek is opening up next year on saturday nights and hopefully they run the SLM weekly.

[car 13]

Are they really cutting supers short so 99 can win the points ?

i'm sure Mr Ellis would be more than happy to run supers every week if you want to put up the money to pay their purse. some people just dont seem to understand running a racetrack is a business and a business has to make money to survive.

[acetone]

Luckily Tri-County has been blessed with a good SLM field most of the season this year. Now the fact that they only race every other week may have something to do with that I dont know but its working for them. The last few times they have raced they have had 15, 18, 17, and 14 SLM show up. And the racing this year has been exciting for sure. I was worried the crowd would shrink too with them running against friday night football but they had a home game on friday and the stands definetly had lots of people in the seats.

I hope they can get the SLM back at NGA because I have seen tracks go down hill after cutting them out of the show like the shape tri-county was in last season. But if not it looks like sugar creek is opening up next year on saturday nights and hopefully they run the SLM weekly.

clevelands crowd is the same without supers for a weekly show. ten slm does not make it feesable to pay the purse they deserve. i still go either way. the steel heads and crates, plus the other classes put on a good show thats well worth the price of admission. went to n. ga saturday, racing was still good. kinda crazy to have two classes of ponies i think, jmo.

[garacefan11]

If everyone that would like to see super late models run would help support the track by inviting new potential fans to attend then maybe they could bring the class back as an every Sat. night class. As it stands the economy is killing the super late model shows at all the surrounding tracks as a regular show. It takes aprox. 400 fans in the stands to pay the super late model purse on a regular show night. If we want to keep this great sport of dirt track racing alive we have all got to do our part to introduce it to people that may have never attended the sport that most of us love. The economy has put a huge financial burden on the car owners, racers, fans and tracks alike, but I do understand that smart business decisions have to be made in order to keep the gates open.

I hear ya, come count heads next weekend in turn one and ask them if they are new fans...im doing my part, ive made at least 10 new fans fall in love this year, and i live two hours from the track now.

And my thoughts about cutting out supers and just having crates and steel heads ahhh, i dont like that idea so much supers just take it to the next level for me even if its only a 10 car field. Butttt i understand its a money thing.

[Outlaw Graphics]

dont matter what the car counts are, you have to have fans in the seats to pay the bills, i doubt the average casual fan can tell much of a difference between the limited late models and super late models anyway, not a huge difference in the qualifying times. Anyone who has been to NGS this year has seen some of the flat-out best racing in the limited class! I hate to see supers phased out also, but survival is the name. Having one super late model special a month has worked for other local tracks, one would assume it could work at NGS also. RJ made a great point while i was recently speaking with him, he said us in the racing community have to find some way to get the fans interested back in the local racing scene and attend the races locally. Hopefully the economy will pick back up as will the racing.

[stevo]

Well i didn't think just cause they were chatching him in points they were not going to run them !

[ozzie 35]

If everyone that would like to see super late models run would help support the track by inviting new potential fans to attend then maybe they could bring the class back as an every Sat. night class. As it stands the economy is killing the super late model shows at all the surrounding tracks as a regular show. It takes aprox. 400 fans in the stands to pay the super late model purse on a regular show night. If we want to keep this great sport of dirt track racing alive we have all got to do our part to introduce it to people that may have never attended the sport that most of us love. The economy has put a huge financial burden on the car owners, racers, fans and tracks alike, but I do understand that smart business decisions have to be made in order to keep the gates open.

How do you determine which fans came to see super late models.Alot of the fans don't know the difference between crates , limiteds , or supers.Dixie had 26 Supers this past week (several N.Ga regulars) and it was probably the best race of the year.The problem with N.Ga is not the classes they run , it's the inconsistency of the whole deal , owner changes, rule changes , and taking nights off. Supers are what attract people to dirt racing, because of the high horsepower and the experience of the drivers , not crate racing(dirts version of restrictor plate racing).Doing away with supers is not the way to attract fans.It's a good way to loose them. It's like Burger King doing away with Whoppers because business is slow.

[old7flags]

How do you determine which fans came to see super late models.Alot of the fans don't know the difference between crates , limiteds , or supers.Dixie had 26 Supers this past week (several N.Ga regulars) and it was probably the best race of the year.The problem with N.Ga is not the classes they run , it's the inconsistency of the whole deal , owner changes, rule changes , and taking nights off. Supers are what attract people to dirt racing, because of the high horsepower and the experience of the drivers , not crate racing(dirts version of restrictor plate racing).Doing away with supers is not the way to attract fans.It's a good way to loose them. It's like Burger King doing away with Whoppers because business is slow.

I agree.
The 2 races at Dixie and Rome this past weekend were probably the best at either track this season. You had N. GA regulars, Alabama drivers, 2 WoO regulars, a few from North Carolina at Dixie on Saturday and of course Ronnie Johnson from Tennessee both nights. 26 supers at each race.
I think Dixie hangs on because they have the landfill business going and the name recognition. There are so many generations of drivers there that it's amazing to still see a driver from 20 years ago still racing there along with his son or other young relative.
You can tell the people in the stands come for the supers because many of them leave when the super feature is over and at Dixie there's usually 3 more races after them.
Lots of competition between tracks. Let's just hope they all survive this economy and remain open