Not moaning - just wondering...

[jonermart]

I guess it'll be all about the cash and it might have been discussed before but how come we've never seen a monster tv screen at any UK drag races (as far as I know that is - i don't go to all by any means).
Boy there would be some interesting long views from a (suitably safely located) crane/cherry picker at the top end and from behind (especially missed since the sh*d's gone). Plus it would keep everybody - well er some people - happy during oildowns etc. How much would people pay extra to have a big screen and a decent film crew to operate it I wonder?
Hartlepool tall ships had one (i googled it) and that was a 'free' event !

[clausy26]

Good idea but like everything money unless you can do what they do in the US n get some one to partly sponsor it but then u still gotta get the rest of the cash for it

[MajorLucky]

i definantly think this is sumit that would be good, i see tierp and hockenhiem have them, and you do miss the odd thing in a blink of an eye

[robc3303]

I would like to see a big screen at Pod. Yes its money but how expensive can a screen be, they are used at many events of all description and certainly at events smaller than an FIA European drag race.

Personally, I would ditch the live action arena for a big screen if one had to reallocate existing resources.

[Turn7]

robc3303 said:

I would like to see a big screen at Pod. Yes its money but how expensive can a screen be, they are used at many events of all description and certainly at events smaller than an FIA European drag race.

Personally, I would ditch the live action arena for a big screen if one had to reallocate existing resources.

ditch the live arena and put up with bored kids?

bigger gates are down to things being family orientated now.

[Burndown]

I would rather the Pod did not have a big screen and continued with the 9pm curfew, than had two big screens and two years of uncontested finals.

[robc3303]

True, I take my family and they love the racing, particularly my 10 year old daughter. They have some interest in the arena but crowds aren't that big when the side shows are on.

Turn7 said:

ditch the live arena and put up with bored kids?

bigger gates are down to things being family orientated now.

[Tet]

Burndown said:

I would rather the Pod did not have a big screen and continued with the 9pm curfew, than had two big screens and two years of uncontested finals.

Uhhh... how are the two related? Not that we've had two years of uncontested finals anyway.

[Burndown]

MajorLucky said:

i definantly think this is sumit that would be good, i see tierp and hockenhiem have them, and you do miss the odd thing in a blink of an eye

With the amount of beer consumed during the day, most will still miss things even if there is a big screen.

[Burndown]

Tet said:

Uhhh... how are the two related? Not that we've had two years of uncontested finals anyway.

I am referring to Hockenheim having uncontested finals, two years running. They may have big screens but from a racing perspective the Pod is substantially better.

[clausy26]

Burndown said:

With the amount of beer consumed during the day, most will still miss things even if there is a big screen.

Very true haaa

[TheMighty]

Have you actually thought about the practicalities?

If you put in a big screen at the Pod it must be visible by all those people who have paid for the better view, so you need to make it highly visible to grandstands, pitside VIP and bankside VIP, so your only option is somewhere on the bank. This then limits your capacity and quite possibly the view for those still on the bank. Most big screen systems appropriate for this are truck based (like the Big TV rig that will have done the Hartepool job), so you would have the problem of getting that truck into a stable situation on the bank (quite a sizeable flat area is required for the truck and its support jacks). A truss based rig would be possible I'm sure but would quite likely take even more space and create more sight-line problems.

Its all well and good and a big screen I'm sure could add to the event, but you have to have somewhere to put it without detracting from the experience for a proportion of your audience.

[The Enthusiast]

robc3303 said:

I would like to see a big screen at Pod. Yes its money but how expensive can a screen be, they are used at many events of all description and certainly at events smaller than an FIA European drag race.

Personally, I would ditch the live action arena for a big screen if one had to reallocate existing resources.

All for that bud. Get rid of it and focus on drag racing. Never liked the pod as much since that happened.

[Tet]

The Enthusiast said:

Get rid of it and focus on drag racing. Never liked the pod as much since that happened.

I doubt they *can* focus on the drag racing without things like the live action arena to bring in the extra punters and thus revenue which allows them to improve the on track action. I'm not sure what there is to dislike, really. I'm not really sure how its presence detracts from your experience, though. In the years it's been there, I've never been to watch whatever's going on there. But there are plenty that do, and I can't see how its existence makes the on track activities any less enthralling for you.

[Turn7]

@ Tet

[The Enthusiast]

Tet said:

I doubt they *can* focus on the drag racing without things like the live action arena to bring in the extra punters and thus revenue which allows them to improve the on track action. I'm not sure what there is to dislike, really. I'm not really sure how its presence detracts from your experience, though. In the years it's been there, I've never been to watch whatever's going on there. But there are plenty that do, and I can't see how its existence makes the on track activities any less enthralling for you.

I dont go as much now. Do more of the NHRA thing now. In a way its a distraction for people who dont/have not followed drag racing for years. Ive practically been born and bred into watching dragracing all my life (26 years.)and nothing else comes close to it.

[Burndown]

The Enthusiast said:

I dont go as much now. Do more of the NHRA thing now. In a way its a distraction for people who dont/have not followed drag racing for years. Ive practically been born and bred into watching dragracing all my life (26 years.)and nothing else comes close to it.

Are you saying that when you go to the Pod you are more concerned with what other people are doing than yourself?

And that only people who have been following drag racing for many years should be allowed through the gate?

[The Enthusiast]

Burndown said:

Are you saying that when you go to the Pod you are more concerned with what other people are doing than yourself?

And that only people who have been following drag racing for many years should be allowed through the gate?

"Home of European drag racing" thats the slogan. It still represents that I think but it might just be me but I think its more of a multi lesure facility now than what it was intended to be from when it opened in 1966.

I dont go thru the gate anymore. Id say its the other way round in my case.

[Burndown]

If you don't go through the gate any more how will you attend the Euro Finals this year which you mention in the Euro Finals thread you are really looking forward to.

The Enthusiast said:

I must say iam impressed with the sportsman fields especially,real fast/diverse cars. Topfuel is not bad. Top Fuel Harley iam looking forward to. Theres 18 of them!!

Its going to be epic for me going to euros then travelling to the NHRA finals events. Cant wait.

Edited by The Enthusiast on Sunday 21st August 13:41

[Turn7]

Must be one of the blokes who walk through the fields to get in....