XR Super Series - race at Texas looks to be moving due to bad soil test.

[AllenK]

Kokomo is a good track,but I wish the TMS date would've gone to Devil's Bowl Speedway in Mesquite. Put Factory Stocks on the card,or b-mods and you would have a good show and a crowd also. Would also make a good Castrol race also.

[Barbecueboy]

Need to get Ole' Eric Jacobson on this. Wasnt he a soil tester guy. Used to race Bloomer cars a few good yrs ago..

The “ earth shaker” is a cool dude…..miss seeing them run. I was thinking his business was more about pest control, fumigation etc for farming…..strawberries, fruits etc.

[foxfire2dirtracing]

Eric is a strawberry (and now hemp also) farmer.
Multi million dollar business.

[huskerdirt]

Weird thing.. after the Bristol race I questioned how they paid the bills with that pitiful crowd. I was told they didnt need fans there because of online viewers.

Now they cancelled because of no fans at the race?

Make up your mind.. gee whiz.

It never said they cancelled a race because of the pitiful crowd it’s just assumptions on others part.

People serious under estimate the online subs. Somewhere I saw it was figured up to be about 6500 subs to cover the purse for the XR races. I would not be shocked if XR had that many if not more. Who knows how many Flo has but I’m guessing it’s probably 10x more.

5 years ago….. nobody was really buying PPVs. Now all those people are buying streaming subs to their favorite outlets.

[billetbirdcage]

During a flo streamed race, they had 20K people/accounts watching. Not signed up but actually watching that one race.

[Barbecueboy]

Thanks fox, I remembered it had something to do with the strawberries out west and them running the soil fume sticker on the car at some point…..that year at east bay was very fuzzy.

[FlatTire]

From what I heard, the trucking costs to get the new dirt for TMS was too high. They'll wait for diesel dump trucks to be replaced with Biden's electric dump trucks and resurface the track for far less money. :-)

[foxfire2dirtracing]

BBQ

You are very correct- Eric was/is involved in soil fumigation in California. I think it was primarily for the strawberry farms and floral industry.
At one time he operated out of the Bloomquist compound but when he actually quit racing- he had a shop just outside of Oak Tidge, Tn in nearby Clinton. He traveled a lot of airline miles between California and the racing on our side of the United States. He could be a little wild at times behind the wheel- but was exciting to watch and not afraid to smash the gas peddle.
I can’t remember exactly why he gave it up- maybe age/ and location of bussiness/family just wore on him. Sometimes the thrill just leaves you.

The strawberry business name: Well-Pick-Berries

[foxfire2dirtracing]

Eric is CFO of Soil Fume
and corporate secretary for :Jacobson Pacific Nursery- probably just no time to race. He was a very successful business person when he did race- appears that he is doing very-very well these days still!

[Barbecueboy]

Great to hear, I’ve liked him since the first time we met him down south at east bay that year……one of the best nicknames ever.