Dirt million

[latemodelman]

HighGroove actually the purse is right around what the DREAM pays that's if no one donated money. Also back when Eldora had 200 or more cars they allowed a driver to run 2 cars back in the 1980's Even then you had maybe 30 guys run 2 cars. Then it went to 1 car per driver in the 1990's and you had 202 to 262 cars. In 2007 they had 203 cars and in 2009 172 cars then it went to 135 cars and then 120 to 104 cars from 2011 to 2017.

[SFrancisFan15]

85 to 87 dollar admisions to 16,000 fans equals 1.8 million. Then add a huge sponsorship from J W Hunt, the consessions, vendors row intake, parking and camping incomes, programs and lineups, the bar make a killing. They still made BIG money.

yes they sure do. Didn't say they didn't.

[Hoosier_Dirt]

I haven't been to Mansfield, but plan to for this race. Hear it's a top notch facility.

[Dlmfan123]

https://racingnews.co/2018/01/07/cody-sommer-details-the-dirt-million-at-mansfield-motor-speedway/

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

It's a 100,000 to win, 2,000 to start race...any other money is just bonus money folks... Why wouldn't they get 80 to 100 cars...there are no big races scheduled against it...it's as much money as any race has paid in the last 15 years..and dont forget when you guys talk about 200 cars at eldora back in the day, remember a lot of guys entered and qualified 2 cars back then...if gateway can get a 100 cars for 30,000 , i'm sure they will come for a hundred grand...
...just sayin

Gateway doesn't get 100 and it is in the dead of winter. You can't race anywhere else. Half the cars in Illinois and Missouri come.

[Hoosier_Dirt]

This is a event where the promoter has "thought outside the box". It's different, and that what DLM racing needs.

[Illtsate32]

Never seen a race at Mansfield but I hope the track is racy or this race wont be around long...Eldoras events are huge because the racing is good...

[HoosierDirtFan]

I'm not sure they will get to a million in payout; but I think it's possible they might get to $750K with the $250K to win. It will all depend on How much they make off of pre-sale before the race weekend. The link says the Dirt Million website should be up some time in January. So they will have about 7 1/2 months to sell race tickets, souvenirs sales, folks buy reserve seats, Entry Fees, concession stand sales, ECT. This could turn into something BIG if it is promoted well and advertised correctly.

[3 wide]

It could be but it is not going to because they have already started out wrong and I don't think they are going to correct it.

[MI Dirt Fan]

Gateway doesn't get 100 and it is in the dead of winter. You can't race anywhere else. Half the cars in Illinois and Missouri come.

I think there's a few other contributing factors in that besides it being in the dead of winter.

[Dlmfan123]

3 wide what did they do wrong?

[Krooser]

I'm waiting to hear how much appearance $$$ they will pay me to show up. Film at 11...

[3 wide]

Well dlmfan123 the way you should do it is say someone donates a 100 dollars give them a t shirt that they can only get by making a donation the at 150 or 200 give them a cap an t shirt then at say 400 give the t shirt cap an jacket this is just an example you need to give people something for a donation if I just want to donate money I can think of a lot better places to donate it I'm self employed and I donate a lot of money to people that real need help during the year.

[MI Dirt Fan]

$100 for a t-shirt. D@mn.

[3 wide]

Well you could structure anyway you want too I was just using that as an example they are not going to give you anything all they want is your money.