Lucas Oil: why do they want to sell LOLMDS?

[Josh Bayko]

@lurker

It’s possible on the OTR level that’s it’s popular because I don’t have much experience in that world, but part of one of my jobs was fleet stuff and the particular municipality that we dealt with had stuff from econoboxes like Focuses all the way up to class 8 stuff like tri-axles and they didn’t buy a whole lot of Lucas.

Lucas stuff is very good stuff, but it’s generally higher priced than similar products in that space and that impacts sales quite a bit.

[84wedge]

Flo aligning with UFC/WWE it appears they will be growing exponentially in the years to come.

That's news to me. With exponential growth comes exponential price increases to the consumer.

[gumby_32d]

I'm a STP man through and through. Stop The Pounding.

[lurker]

I’d gladly pay more for Flo.

With exponential growth comes exponential price increases to the consumer.

84wedge,

As racing season is over for me, and knowing its hockey season, and having ECHL FTW Komet season hockey tickets for home games, I can watch every FTW Komet road game. I save $$$ on away game road tickets such as Indy, Kzoo, and Toledo, let alone fuel and eats, throughout hockey season. That doesn’t mean I still don’t go to a few road games during the season, just not as many as I once did.

Thus I get more out of Flo than just racing, so Flo is very-very cheap for me as it is. If and when a price increase comes, I will gladly pay more. Heck, being honest, Flo pays for its self the month of January when the Tulsa Shootout is on. I’ve bucket listed experienced both the Shootout and the Chili Bowl more then once, so its nice to watch from the comfort of my home.

[lurker]

lucas is huge in the trucking business

I was once told that the trucking market for Lucas products in Australia was huge as well. Let alone the Asian market. I think people sometimes forget Lucas is Global with products.

[lurker]

Thanks for the reply Josh.

[84wedge]

@Lurker. I was amazed to find that FLO came with much more than the racing I was watching. I was subscribing for a year before I found the grappling channels and ontehr sports. It's a great value.

[WisWildManFan]

in the limited research i did it appears that Forrest Lucas is worth at least $500,000,000. Why are so many assuming that the LOLMDS will be sold within a few years? It appears as tho they are making money yearly and the sponsors are increasing yearly, does Lucas want to concentrate its resources elsewhere in motorsports or just reduce its expenditures on motorsports?I saw that the World Racing Groups total revenue is reportedly around $10,000,000 yearly. Obviously that quite a bit less than FloSports revenue thats been estimated at $115,000,000. And now with Flo aligning with UFC/WWE it appears they will be growing exponentially in the years to come. Does High Limit and its financiers need to buy LOLMDS or could they just start High Limit Late Model Series on their own? If Lucas wants out of late model racing no matter what i dont see why High Limit would buy them, just allow them to fold...

how did flo align with ufc/wwe?

[Josh Bayko]

how did flo align with ufc/wwe?

WWE invested in Flo a couple years back. I doubt it means much, if anything, to the racing part of their platform.

[Raceready]

how did flo align with ufc/wwe?

One could easily see the tie to fake and scripted studio wrestling and the showmanship gimmicks they dream up and the DLM playoff Championship format ? ?

[jog49]

"Lucas Oil: why do they want to sell LOLMDS?"

They have run out of gimmicks to crown a champion?

[Raceready]

"Lucas Oil: why do they want to sell LOLMDS?"They have run out of gimmicks to crown a champion?

They are probably ashamed of the way that that the real Champion was robbed of his rightful crown ? ?

[MRM]

I don't know if Lucas was looking to sell as much as it was Sweet and Larson trying to buy it.