Bristol to be "Invite-Only"

[LeafMaster41]

Keep your Eliteism.

"Invite-Only", yes lets make DLM even more "Elite-est" than ever, like writing rules that favor those with the biggest budgets. 20 years ago when this was done the first time it was no issue for anyone to come because the heats easily separated who was ready and who wasn't, but blocking admission is about as Un-American as it gets. I'm guessing Mitch McConnell & Mitt Romney are writing the rules... A better approach in my book would be to have qualifying events leading up to the Bristol deal, like the original Hav A Tampa shootout. Take top 6 finishers(or however many) from different events around the country as qualifiers, then at least a man can race his way to it, instead of cronyism, "I like you, but I don't like you." The only issue that comes to mind was the first year with breaking lite weight wheels, I remember because Duralite ran an adv after with the plug, "The only wheel to survive Bristol". I abhor Elitism and Cronyism, so I won't be supporting this, I think America has had its fill with special treatment, havent you? Another idea would simply put in a performance specification for qualifying, you have to be within so many percent of the pole speed or you can't race, but no, we don't need a doorman deciding who can enter and who can't.

[NeedforLM$peed]

My feeling is its because of safety.. I don't think they want any joe blow driver showing up there with hardly any experience being 30 mph slower and causing issues.. And you know its gonna attract a few of them because its Bristol.. The speed is gonna be scary fast as it is, let alone having to deal with a car being way off the pace and possibly causing issues...

But they can be there for the $50k race? Doesn't make sense.

They were turning the same or faster times at Volusia last week as they were in the early 00's at Bristol.

[06Tireman]

My feeling is its because of safety.. I don't think they want any joe blow driver showing up there with hardly any experience being 30 mph slower and causing issues.. And you know its gonna attract a few of them because its Bristol.. The speed is gonna be scary fast as it is, let alone having to deal with a car being way off the pace and possibly causing issues...

[Barbecueboy]

I'm guessing it's just to keep the show moving along more than anything............using the old Pareto 80/20 principle as a guide.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

WOO in April is invite only.
Posted on WOO website and DOD.

[MRM]

Which race is invite only and where was this posted?

[NeedforLM$peed]

Why would it be wore out? The surface has been layed almost a month ago now. The first race is March 20th I believe and the WoO events are April 10th.

[3 wide]

Well they can do what ever they want to do about inviting cars but there big problem is the race track will be wore out any way they want to do it everybody knows it's hard to keep moisture in dirt on asphalt or concrete so if they try to rework it going to take forever going to be interesting.

[NeedforLM$peed]

The 50k at Bristol, Texas and Vegas is unrelated to either national series.

I knew that...

[lastplacecar]

Some people don't want "trash" at "Crown Jewell" events.

Maybe all the “trash” should stay away from all the other events and Crown Jewels WOO has.

[Josh Bayko]

Wait... It's ok for the $50k event but for the WoO event it's invite only?

The 50k at Bristol, Texas and Vegas is unrelated to either national series.

[dirtcrazy4u]

I don't know if there is a weekend open that you could have both series attend for the late models. If so, then that's just poor planning. After seeing the lucas guys leave florida after east bay makes me wonder how many would go if there was no conflicts. How did this race get to the crown jewel level ? It's a gimmick that a nascrap promotor is doing, nothing more. He's believing the stands will be full, just like years ago. I doubt that very much.

The sprint cars are going to have the smaller field of cars. Central pa guys are not going to flock to the place. Unless they get some heavy incentives. The 69k did tow to Arizona. The grove and port royal are paying big dollars to stay home this year.

[NeedforLM$peed]

Wait... It's ok for the $50k event but for the WoO event it's invite only?

[Josh Bayko]

Is the sprint show going to be the same deal?

Yes, and let’s be serious, anybody expecting big car counts at a track that’s roughly ten hours from the nearest 410 track and the season will have already started at those 410 tracks by then is pants on head retarded.

[Josh Bayko]

This is going to end up being much ado about nothing. Lucas is racing elsewhere that weekend, and I doubt the Midwestern dudes used to bullrings are even going to be interested in racing it. I doubt they even get to the 45 cars they’re going to invite. Teams are going to find out exactly how hard it is on cars at the Bristol Dirt Nationals and decide it’s not worth it when the WoO comes around.