burtonfan1995 Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 From reading the Hagerstown Facebook page, it seems there was trouble there today with the purses not being paid fully and the races being shortened. Anyone have the details as to what happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decker 91 Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 shortened the races wanted to pay 5k for each division ernie davis stepped up and paid the difference to make them all 10,000 to win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mustangbru8 Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Who is Ernie Davis? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Ross Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 He owns the 25 ernie d's late model that josh Richards drives in regional shows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jello Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Wow, pretty sad to see a track try doing that. Not enough fans to cover te purse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Shields Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 they said if they got 50 plus cars for each class they would pay but they didnt they only had 30s for sb n bb mods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dundeedm Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 And he added to the purse for the Modifieds also? Wow. that shows a man who really loves the sport of racing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FightForTheRail Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 I wonder if there will even be an Octoberfest next year. Hagerstown cut out several races that were money losers from this year's schedule. I probably have not been to Octoberfest in 10 years, but I have seen it enough times to know it is usually a race to avoid. I never quite got the whole allure of the race, or even the point of adding 358 Mods to the card. IMO, the race was fine when it was just Modifieds, Late Models and Sprint Cars. The problem with having four $10.000 to win races is that the rest of the purse has to take a sharp, sharp drop from second to last. Hagerstown wanting to cut the purse really surprises me. The crowd must have been awful. I know the Octoberfest is a gigantic purse, but I have been to some early season races at Hagerstown in the cold when I don't think there were 300 fans in the stands and they didn't cut the purse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Farone Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Maybe Bruce Richard took over Hagertown for the weekend ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4wheelin Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Anyone got the full results from the races? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Bayko Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 He owns the 25 ernie d's late model that josh Richards drives in regional shows He throws a lot of money around in racing. He's also a significant backer of Clint Smith. Jason Covert and Bart Hartman have driven his 25 as well. He also sponsors a few support class cars at Winchester in Virginia. With Kid Rocket "moving on up" to NASCRAP, I imagine Bart Hartman will get a lot more seat time in the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayydirt Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Anyone got the full results from the races? Here they are..Some cool photos too http://www.latemodelracer.com/cgi-bin/yabb3/YaBB.pl?num=1321243643/1#1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroy Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Here they are..Some cool photos too http://www.latemodelracer.com/cgi-bin/yabb3/YaBB.pl?num=1321243643/1#1 Thanks for the info! Did not know about that website till now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroy Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Here they are..Some cool photos too http://www.latemodelracer.com/cgi-bin/yabb3/YaBB.pl?num=1321243643/1#1 While surfing that site, I see that Davenport is still winning!. $20,000 this past weekend Nov.13 at East Alabama Motor Speedway. McCeadie finished 5th in a car numbered 1G? Any info from anyone on this ride? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FondaFan16 Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 While surfing that site, I see that Davenport is still winning!. $20,000 this past weekend Nov.13 at East Alabama Motor Speedway. McCeadie finished 5th in a car numbered 1G? Any info from anyone on this ride? If my memory is correct, that 1G car is the same car that Don O'Neal drove during speedweeks to a victory, JJ Yeley raced it in the Prelude to the Dream and finished 3rd or 4th in it, and I think Will Vaught ran the car at the World Finals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jello Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 While surfing that site, I see that Davenport is still winning!. $20,000 this past weekend Nov.13 at East Alabama Motor Speedway. McCeadie finished 5th in a car numbered 1G? Any info from anyone on this ride? Don't remember who it was, but in one of the AARN after Eastern states weekend. It said he was gonna run someone elses car down there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiend540 Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 From what I have read it is the Warrior house car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th3Swami Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 they said if they got 50 plus cars for each class they would pay but they didnt they only had 30s for sb n bb mods that rule only applied to small block modifieds since 2009...running against the 410 sprint show an hour and half away saturday cut down the 2-day admission crowd significantly. they ended up 20,000 dollars short of the purse money. ernie davis front the 20000 so everyone got paid the full purse. but they elected to keep the laps short in hopes of improving the racing action. Octobefest 2010, the end of an era... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Wow I'm not a Josh Richards fan, but you can bet I'm going to be cheering on the Ernie D's #25. Kudos to Ernie Davis!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Avenengo Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 that rule only applied to small block modifieds since 2009...running against the 410 sprint show an hour and half away saturday cut down the 2-day admission crowd significantly. they ended up 20,000 dollars short of the purse money. ernie davis front the 20000 so everyone got paid the full purse. but they elected to keep the laps short in hopes of improving the racing action. Octobefest 2010, the end of an era... Did you mean 2011 and not 2010? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudman Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Does anyone else think if they ran 2 nights that it would be better racing than Sundays race. The track does night like day racing from the 4 Oktoberfests that I attended Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroy Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Does anyone else think if they ran 2 nights that it would be better racing than Sundays race. The track does night like day racing from the 4 Oktoberfests that I attended I know that if they had run the features on saturday, that I would have traveled down there to watch them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th3Swami Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 Did you mean 2011 and not 2010? no because 2010 was the last time the octoberfest 350 happened in its entirety. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bicknell55 Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 no because 2010 was the last time the octoberfest 350 happened in its entirety. I'm pretty sure we ran 100 laps last year with the 358 however I can't say if we got the full purse or not. I know that the less than 50 cars, less than a full purse rule was in effect last year. At least this year it would be even for all divisions as opposed to just the 358's since it isn't like the big blocks and late models are drawing over 50 cars each. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
th3Swami Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 I'm pretty sure we ran 100 laps last year with the 358 however I can't say if we got the full purse or not. I know that the less than 50 cars, less than a full purse rule was in effect last year. At least this year it would be even for all divisions as opposed to just the 358's since it isn't like the big blocks and late models are drawing over 50 cars each. You absolutely ran 100 laps last year(2010) hence my above quote "2010 the end of an era" The less than 50 cars purse rule was for small blocks only in 2010 and 2011. That rule had nothing to do with the "reduced purse and laps" this year. even with this rule the speedway was still short 20 thousand dollars as a direct result of losing the saturday sprint car crowd and teams. therefore without being able to pay ANY of the advertised purses, they elected to reduce the laps and save costs to the teams. Ernie Davis then decided to cover the difference but the speedway kept the laps recuded to try to "improve" the racing action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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