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Post by petrolfumes on Apr 29, 2018 22:19:02 GMT 12
It's to late in season to be trying to run Speedway now it's almost May. Easter used to be the end of the season. Try telling the folk up there in Taipa . They race their biggest meeting in June. Queens Birthday Weekend . Two Days racing and close to 100 odd races and they normally get all the racing in. A great weekend usually Queens Birthday at Taipa used to be the Mid Winter / Off Season Meeting : At least 2 months after racing finished this year its only 2 weeks : Great meeting if you get a chance to attend : |
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Post by TrevG on Apr 30, 2018 0:15:56 GMT 12
This thread has gone a little off Topic, but , by memory Kaikoura Speedway used to hold a 2 day meeting at Queens Birthday Weekend , and that's
in the South Island.
Not sure what happened to the track in the earthquake, could have gone up or gone down.
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Post by epmurc on Apr 30, 2018 10:21:01 GMT 12
in front of how many people? Which begs the question, who are the chief beneficiaries of the racing? Surely the primary reason for a club to hold a meeting is so people can race their cars. If others want to come along and pay for the privilege of watching, that's just a positive bonus. |
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Post by Tapped on Apr 30, 2018 10:52:59 GMT 12
in front of how many people? Which begs the question, who are the chief beneficiaries of the racing? Surely the primary reason for a club to hold a meeting is so people can race their cars. If others want to come along and pay for the privilege of watching, that's just a positive bonus. . Which in turn raises the issue of if the fans didn't pay the clubs wouldn't be able to afford to function. |
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Post by tonyr on Apr 30, 2018 11:06:56 GMT 12
Which begs the question, who are the chief beneficiaries of the racing? Surely the primary reason for a club to hold a meeting is so people can race their cars. If others want to come along and pay for the privilege of watching, that's just a positive bonus. . Which in turn raises the issue of if the fans didn't pay the clubs wouldn't be able to afford to function. It’s a symbiotic relationship. |
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Post by epmurc on Apr 30, 2018 13:21:19 GMT 12
Which in turn raises the issue of if the fans didn't pay the clubs wouldn't be able to afford to function. As blanket statement, I don't believe that's true. Sure enough the bigger, metropolitan clubs rely on the revenue from the paying public, but Ramjam's comment was directed at Taipa. They, along with their northern neighbours such as Kaikohe, Dargaville, Whangarei and no doubt a host of "grass roots" clubs throughout the country, exist primarily for the benefit of the racers. The clubs are run and maintained by volunteers. Sure enough revenue from the small amounts of spectators they do attract (by comparison to the bigger organisations) does help but if that wasn't there, they'd still find a way to race |
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Post by nakifans on Apr 30, 2018 14:11:51 GMT 12
Dargaville and Whangarei charge $5 and $10 public entry respectively , so as empurc says, those clubs exist solely for the racers, public paying is a bonus.
Taipa with their 100 odd races over Queens Birthday Weekend has donated prizes for each race.
So does the $20 plus entry SNZ tracks provide value in comparison .
Any way back to the topic, forecast looking better at this stage for racing on Sat at WP.
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Post by epmurc on Apr 30, 2018 15:05:09 GMT 12
Dargaville and Whangarei charge $5 and $10 public entry respectively , so as empurc says, those clubs exist solely for the racers, public paying is a bonus. - Everyone pays to get in, competitors as well as the public. But I'd expect the majority of that would go towards covering the cost of the Ambulance/Medic
Taipa with their 100 odd races over Queens Birthday Weekend has donated prizes for each race.
So does the $20 plus entry SNZ tracks provide value in comparison .
Any way back to the topic, forecast looking better at this stage for racing on Sat at WP. This is Auckland. I'll tell you how the weather is looking at 10 to 6 on Saturday.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2018 15:23:43 GMT 12
Dargaville and Whangarei charge $5 and $10 public entry respectively , so as empurc says, those clubs exist solely for the racers, public paying is a bonus. Taipa with their 100 odd races over Queens Birthday Weekend has donated prizes for each race. So does the $20 plus entry SNZ tracks provide value in comparison . Any way back to the topic, forecast looking better at this stage for racing on Sat at WP. seeing as you asked, assuming your question would I rather pay $20 to watch the 16 races I saw at Welly last week (the last meeting I went to) or pay $20 over two days to watch 100 races at taipa, I'd take the Welly option any day, but as a speedway fan I would also go to taipa if I was in the area, I can almost guarantee tho, I wouldn't see the whole 100 races over the weekend. |
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Post by tony27 on Apr 30, 2018 18:15:45 GMT 12
This thread has gone a little off Topic, but , by memory Kaikoura Speedway used to hold a 2 day meeting at Queens Birthday Weekend , and that's in the South Island. Not sure what happened to the track in the earthquake, could have gone up or gone down. Kaikoura had stopped being run a number of years before the earthquake, not sure if the farm that the kidney shaped track was on got sold or if there was another reason. Queen's Birthday weekend used to be 1 of Kaikoura's busiest weekends of the year with no accomodation available due to the speedway, a 3 day motorcycle trial that has been going for 72 years & a surf competition. There were some north islanders who attended the speedway event, I can remember being on the ferry with the late 2 Bums & his crew from Meanee then when we checked in in Kaikoura we discovered they were staying at the same motel. Some of the younger guys probably regretted that the next morning  |
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