Lucas Oil axes the MLRA Series… is regional dirt racing in a bad spot?
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Hunt the Front discusses the implications of Lucas Oil shutting down the Midwest Late Model Racing Association for Dirt Late Model racing.
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I agree with you, Joshua. Super Dirt Late model is becoming the NASCAR on Dirt. Dirt Late model racing is my favorite style of racing. There needs to be the regional level racing as the stepping stone from grassroots dlm racing in the midwest.
There are a few series that can add some of the tracks in that area, Mars, Comp cams, and Revival are series that can pick up some of the tracks
Now you know why the Lucas 2025 schedule is almost all midwest tracks.
We are battling several things imo. There are too many classes to choose from on entry level. That is why the cop car class is popular. Too many classes mean less cars per race. Less cars for each race mean less fan support. Inflation is killing all new start ups because of cost. Unless we can get butts in the seats nothing else matters. This is for grandstands and race seats. I would rather spend my money going to a track with 15 cars in street stock than 3 cars in 4 other upper level divisions races. It all starts at the local tracks for beginners. If just a portion of moneys spent promoting big races was spent on lower classes it would help that.
This is somewhat of the start of how Nascar transitioned. When Nascar got a big TV deal and started slowing down on running a ton of races to allow regional guys a chance to race. It slowly started to decline. It's staring to go that way with late model racing. The main touring series is getting so big and costs so much to run. Now, corporate sponsorship is getting more and more involved. It's going to turn into a sport like all the others. I wouldn't be surprised to start seeing contracts for more drivers to start happening.
I think streaming is producing a lot of this mindset. The Flo and Dirtvision money is doing so much for the top level of late model and sprint car racing. $30k to $50k races are common place, we've even seen a couple $1 million purses in the past few years. Yet none of that filters down to the lower levels. As a dirt racing fan with finite time, I'm more likely to click and watch a Lucas Oil, Outlaws, or High Limit race than I am a regional series like MLRA or IRA. Series need the streaming money and sponsorship money to make it work, but the streaming services and sponsors aren't going to give comparable deals to the smaller regional series that get less views.
I didn't grow up following the national tours, I grew up going to my local dirt track every weekend. Now that I am lucky enough to get to race myself, I race a support class regionally. As someone who knows and loves local and regional dirt racing above all else, it's really saddening to see the top level booming while the local and regional scene dies.
Local and regional racing dying isn't just going to hurt the national tours by cutting off the stream of new talent. The fact is that most tracks wouldn't survive only running 1 or 2 national tour dates a year. You need that local and regional scene to support the tracks year round in order for these facilities to stay open for the national tours.
Hi guys!
MLRA kind of fell in between the big boys and the budget teams. It would cost tracks nearly big boys prices to show up, but they would only get local teams crowds in the stands. There are a few other series running in the upper midwest that are more attractive to the tracks that pull in more late models and put on just as good of a show.
I hate to say it but local tracks are dying a slow death. Here in Arkansas
Are they going to do anything with these skewed bodies some of them are running?
What it means when they go to Knoxville they'll be lucky to have 24 cars show up. The guys that were part of the Mlra will have to go to the slmr series. That's the only series that's close to the Mlra series.
There are so many other sports that would collapse if the stepping stone has been pulled out from under the to level. You need a development league, cost and talent to learn.
SLM racing is becoming too expensive with engine costs spiraling out of control. 50k for a good motor plus another for a backup. Two complete ready to race cars in the 250k+ toter. Cabinets cramed full of spare parts etc etc. Local yocal weekend racers are left out. Which brought the crate raceing classes to the forefront.
Cost way too much money to run those cars. That’s why you only had two guys run the whole series. To run for a 6 thousand to win and a 1,000 to start is ridiculous. And it’s become just like NASCAR and you might keep 30 to 40 showing up on a national level.
Local racing is essentially gone
Regional will be next and soon after national racing will be limited to handful of millionaires 😂😢
At some point SLM will have a cubic inch limit plus get the bodies under control.
Just look at NASCAR, the stands are practically empty and very few good sponsor's
Correct. Lucas Playoff was first sign of Nascar contamination. WOO and HTF should never change. One flat, One Motor, One Coil Wire and the rightful champion is screwed. That’s screwed up.
Add of these problems started when nascar drivers started their own rac I ng teams causing everything to raising the prices of the super lstes and series but when cars got very high plus high price of motors then lo cal guys can not afford racing a super l a tr models. They didn't want to run a 525 crate we model to help keep the super lates.
Correct me if I'm wrong, didn't Jason Feger race in the MLRA series and win the championship again this year?
Mars series
MARS series is the one that Feger won. But Feger ran several races in the MLRA.
DLM Racing is becoming Nascar 2.0 and its not good! We need regional and local racers they are the backbone of the sport!
Htf open wheel
Didnt MLRA only have two drivers run the full series? That’s some SAS level of drivers running the full series.
MLRA had 11 Full Time Drivers, you have to remember that MLRA had a ton of Co-Sanctioned races with LOLMDS and so the Simpsons were the only ones who made all the A-Features.
I see that now. Co-sanctioned events definitely makes it hard to get more than show up points for the regional guys.
Nah Lucas oil is just falling behind compared to WoO marketing and they know they're not making the same money with the current formats they use from the racing to advertising to content production and timing
But the talking heads won't even talk about how expensive and concerns about DLM Racing an always turn the other way