North Georgia Gone Again?

[usedtobefast]

It all boils down to the Young's the track will never be successful if they have anything to do with it sodont blame the economy

[bite me too]

If NGS can hang on for a couple weeks they will have a few more cars show up... We went to the Creek this past Saturday and i will have to say.... Wow! What a joke. Track was so rough it bent the steering shaft in the car, Bent the two right side shocks, and killed evey rivet in the car. With the economy like it is I dont see people spending this kind of money to repair a car every week. I dont see the Creek hanging on much longer. Unless people decided to travel to Cleavland they will have to go to NGS. From what i can remember NGS was an awesome racing surface to race on and it wasn't really hard on equipment like the Creek. So lets keep NGS open!!!!

You just signed up on 4m and are trashing the Creek in 2 out of 3 posts.....jus' sayin'.

[skinnyracer39]

ngs

It all boils down to the Young's the track will never be successful if they have anything to do with it sodont blame the economy

sorry but i just had to throw my 2 cents in on this one ,unfortunately you must not know the young's ,because it sure don't sound like it to me ..............

[Skinny64]

To: bite me to.

No I actually signed up to 4m to show my appreciation to Jeff Smith and Alan Green and to support them as fans...but when i seen a post started about NGS closing i spoke up in support of it. Since someone thought the creek was hurting NGS by stealing cars i said my peace about it and told them how sucky my visit was. So if we are all still counting.... im three days into this and now have 3 post on how bad Sugar Creek is... 2 post on how im fans of Jeff Smith and Alan Green and 1 post on how i support NGS! Figured i would save time and just bundle all the #'s together to make it easier to keep up with. I hear the way to go now days is to bundle!

[Sugar Creek Promoter]

Skinny64

I will be the first to admit we have had a rough track a few times this year. If you were there this past sat night I have no idea how u can say the race track was rough. We had a total of 35 cars and a smooth racetrack. So out of appreciation for you coming to race with us i would like to give you 2 free tickets to this weeks race. Please give me a call 706-455-5396 thanks Promoter Andrew Moreland

[Skinny64]

Appreciate it.

I appreciate the effort to get us back but it will take my shock guy a week to fix the shafts in the shocks so we are sidelined for this weekend. I will say for everybody reading all this.... absolutely nothing wrong with the peoples attitudes and our typical cutting money and or purses.... but the race track was horrible for us. Maybe if we were regular's we could build a car to withstand the conditions but after my $525 shock bill and time of fixing the little things on the car im not sure we will be back.... so again Andrew i appreciate the thought but we will stick to or sister state west where we can race for nothing more than the cost of gas and routine maintenance .....

[js6859]

Is it a fact that North Ga. is not going to open or a rumor? They have a lot of races schduled and I am sure that people would like to know for sure.JMO

[car 13]

I'm not sure how anyone can blame the Young family for the current problems that N Ga is having. They have tried to work with the current & past promoters to keep the track open. It is in their best interest for the track to be open because even when the track is closed there are bills to pay and with no income from the lease the responsiblity to pay the bills falls directly on their shoulders. Anyone who hasnt ran a business probably doesnt understand this. The taxes & upkeep bills arent going to pay themselves. If they dont spend the money required to keep the place upkept them it will go downhill fast. Go look at any house that has been foreclosed on that the bank hasnt been paying someone to preform the routine maintance on ... ie yard work etc... and you will see what i mean. I have a house like that next door to me and it has quickly became a eyesore & safety hazard.

Its too bad that the current promoters havent been able to make enough profit to enable them to keep the gates open but i'm sure it's a business decision plain & simple. It takes money to make money, but there is only so much you can lose before you have to call it quits. Its been said the best way to make a million dollars quickly running a race track is to start with two million. The current promoters also has inherited the reputation and problems from the promoters before them. Its not very hard to run a race track into the ground, but it takes a long time & plenty of money to rebuilt one that has been run into the ground.

Hopefully someone else will step up and try rebuild N Ga but with today's economy they will need to be willing to take a loss for some time before they see a return on their money.

[TUTY]

Off the subject but it's really hard for a promoter to make any money any more. Our local 1/4 track has been around for 40+ years and it's a process of elimination to see who's going to run it. Track seats 1200 in grandstand (to small to run a big show) so they run a couple USMTS modified shows and a regular weekly program. Weekly about 40 cars come in 4 classes + mini-sprints, which have been a savior to the track (18 to 20 sprints). Low car count puts about 350 to 500 people in the stands at $11 addmission and $25 pit passes. If you do the math at these track and there's alot of them across the united states, it's $1000 to the good or $1000 to the bad every week. I counted the other day and there's 21 race tracks with in 1 1/2 hours ! Wonder why, it's just like if a gas station on the corner is making a dollar, someone builds one bigger and better so no one makes any money.

[TUTY]

A smart person can for see the future and gets out before it takes everything from you !

[JoeDirt]

Just Try..

Just try to race a Sunday Day Race and see how many you will get?

Dixie, Cleveland, Boyds & Sugar Creek cars have a chance of all racing....

[otto9]

How much dust do you planning on having with a Sunday day race? It would do no good to have a Sunday day race because you might get those cars from other tracks but then the dust would be so bad they would not come back

[Hyatt144]

Does Leon still have anything to do with NGA. If so i can understand why it would close down that cat is a joke.

[blackcloud]

It all boils down to the Young's the track will never be successful if they have anything to do with it sodont blame the economy

Not sure how you know the Young's but I do not understand your logic on how the property owners have any effect on what the promoters do or don't do. you may want to change your member name from usetobefast to stillprettydamstupid!!!!!!!!

[blackcloud]

Put the track for sale if you cant run it on your on. You don't need to change your screen name black cloud just change the sign out on 225 to blackcloud speedway

If you run such a successful business and care about what happens to the speedway then why did you not step up to the plate as a sponsor. If you dont have the money to keep the track open and help sponsor then dont get on here and bash the people involved that you know nothing about just because you want to be one of the key board warriors and try to stir the pot. If you know so much about everyone involved then call me in person and we can discuss this matter.