Gateway Dirt Nationals paid nothing if you weren't in the A Main

[3 wide]

Well if this is true probably no need in opening Mansfield it doesn't look like a good location for a dirt track anyway to me.

[calverton]

Karma is a bitch hope he fails at Mansfield

[dirtwriter]

This cat screwed some others on the carolina crown races. I was waiting to see what was going to go down at this event.

Do you have any details on what happened? curious

[xray]

Would you goto work if your employer couldn't tell you what you were going to be paid? I don't think Cody is the one with the problem......

[SLIDING SIDEWAYS]

Do you have any details on what happened? curious

Not exactly the whole story. Some how the promoter didnt pay the winner all his money one year. Now idk if he finished paying him or not. Winners purse was $30k and i think he paid him $20k. The place was standing room only so he made $$.

[CIRF]

Someone clear this up for me. The same guy that promoted the disaster in the dome bought Mansfield Speedway? Is this guy working on behalf of an investor group or on his own behalf?

[zach51]

I'm surprised that anybody was dumb enough to think that the pay was going to be decent. It was a novelty event.

I have no problem with it paying nothing if you didn't make the A, however that should most definitely have been relayed to the teams before they signed up.

Lesson learned: If you can't handle not getting a check after it's over, don't sign up and go.

[CIRF]

Lesson learned: If you can't handle not getting a check after it's over, don't sign up and go.

It's a safe bet that will be the case for many car owners if this event is repeated next December.

[Clayton_Wetter]

It's a safe bet that will be the case for many car owners if this event is repeated next December.

I don't see how they could repeat this event again. Unless they change to another class of racing vehicles. Midgets? or something else.

If there is a 3 year lease that is, otherwise this was a hit and run show.

[3 wide]

Looks like a hit an run to me I said it would never work before they ever started but everybody wanted to talk about how great it was going to be they pumped this race for months.

[jog49]

Sommer is about 29 years old so I would imagine he's fronting someone or some thing.

[bullring]

It was odd how this event was so hyped several months before the event, and then the closer it got the information became harder and harder to get. To charge a $300 entry fee to these guys and not give them a dime is ridiculous. Some of these guys never had a prayer of making the A, and probably some wouldn't have showed if they knew the payout structure. But I'm sure that was kept under wraps like most everything else until the event happened.

[zyoung25]

Someone clear this up for me. The same guy that promoted the disaster in the dome bought Mansfield Speedway? Is this guy working on behalf of an investor group or on his own behalf?

Cody doesn't own Mansfield, just a standing promoter.

[thexfactor0210]

Yes it was kept under wraps. To attempt to cover it up and not tell anyone is a shame. It is unfortunate that he would do this and think no one would speak up

[CIRF]

It wasnt a disaster for one.

Cody doesn't own Mansfield either, just a standing promoter.

Really? Not a disaster? I'm thinking there are a fair amount of dirt late model car owners that might take issue with that line of thought. LOL!

I never said he owned it. I asked the question if he did, or not. Thanks for the clarification. I think.