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Post by Speedway Central (David) on Jan 14, 2009 21:27:28 GMT 12
Why is it dark at night and light in day when in a day is light and dark.
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Post by wolfysmith on Jan 14, 2009 22:59:17 GMT 12
As others have said, Saturday night racing fills a void, especially amongst families on what to do on a Saturday night. Speedway represents a good family night out. It's relatively cheap, it's a sport that the whole family can enjoy on different levels - the kids go for the 'crash 'n bash' whilst Mum and Dad might be more tuned in to the racing side of things. The races are fairly short to keep the attantion span of the kids (unlike sitting through 40 minutes of egg chasing).
Also, if you have a rain off, you can always run the meeting on Sunday if necessary. Saturday afternoons go up against other spectator sports Rugby primarily in NZ (from memory) and in the UK, we have soccer, although thanks to Sky TV this is now a seven day a week sport almost 365 days a year!
In the UK, we don't have rain off's - even on the dirt tracks but we do mainly run Saturday night meetings, primarily because this is 'prime time' for the family market and crowds are bigger than Sunday meetings. The other factor which has been touched on is 'racing under lights' which seems to make the cars go faster, you have the sparks and the whole thing seems to more intense under lights. How many times have you been to a meeting, which seems to just get that little bit better once the sun goes down?
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Post by nrp165 on Jan 15, 2009 18:45:08 GMT 12
from what I can tell,dirt track racing is mostly at night-due to the difficulty in keeping moisture in the track during daylight hours.
This is the case for the rest of the world,anyway-I realise NZ doesn't have any tarseal speedway tracks.
It was certainly the case in the UK when I left-Saturday night was shale(even in the pouring rain!)...Sunday afternoons were tarmac.
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