Towdad
06-22-2007, 10:24 AM
Although rain might negate it, we were planning on coming over to BCS tonite for a test and tune before next weeks LM special. I was disappointed to see yesterdays paycut, but business is business.
We race at a fair amount of tracks regionally and so I generally check forums to see whats going on at them. I am always surprised by the amount of vitrol and venom in the posts about BCS. From our limited experience (3 trips there) it seems like a racy little joint. Evidently our viewpoint 119 miles away is far enough to limit the intrusion of local politics, bitter rivalrys and personal grudges.
I notice our co-racers on the WDRL, MLRA and other circuits seem to be a lot more annoyed with their own local tracks and the goings on at them than the tracks they visit only a couple times a year. Circumstances that are just part of the deal at occasional venues seem to really get under their skin at their own local track. It appears to me as yet another demonstration of the old saying- "familiarity breeds contempt".
It also seems like the newer the participant is to local dirt track racing, the more likely they are to take strong verbal or cyber exception to real or perceived injustices that probably can't be changed, have always been that way and probably always will be that way. The have been racing for a year or two and can already tell the promoter and the techman, oh especially the techman, how to do their job. It makes me smile when I hear the saying, "why is it those who know the least, know it the loudest?"
I'm not saying this is the basis for all the bad vibe on BCS forums because I don't know. But my comments generally parallel the facts whether it's a track at Greenwood NE, Menomonie,WI, Corning or Farley, IA, Memphis, MO, and I am sure, many other local dirt tracks.
We look forward to racing with you there, whether tonite and next week or just next week.
Mike Furman
Iowa City
We race at a fair amount of tracks regionally and so I generally check forums to see whats going on at them. I am always surprised by the amount of vitrol and venom in the posts about BCS. From our limited experience (3 trips there) it seems like a racy little joint. Evidently our viewpoint 119 miles away is far enough to limit the intrusion of local politics, bitter rivalrys and personal grudges.
I notice our co-racers on the WDRL, MLRA and other circuits seem to be a lot more annoyed with their own local tracks and the goings on at them than the tracks they visit only a couple times a year. Circumstances that are just part of the deal at occasional venues seem to really get under their skin at their own local track. It appears to me as yet another demonstration of the old saying- "familiarity breeds contempt".
It also seems like the newer the participant is to local dirt track racing, the more likely they are to take strong verbal or cyber exception to real or perceived injustices that probably can't be changed, have always been that way and probably always will be that way. The have been racing for a year or two and can already tell the promoter and the techman, oh especially the techman, how to do their job. It makes me smile when I hear the saying, "why is it those who know the least, know it the loudest?"
I'm not saying this is the basis for all the bad vibe on BCS forums because I don't know. But my comments generally parallel the facts whether it's a track at Greenwood NE, Menomonie,WI, Corning or Farley, IA, Memphis, MO, and I am sure, many other local dirt tracks.
We look forward to racing with you there, whether tonite and next week or just next week.
Mike Furman
Iowa City