Where Does Your Time Go? (Continued)

In the last several posts we ask, "Where does your time go?" Here are four more ideas that will help you finish shows earlier, and send fans how with smiles on their faces.

RACES "ON-DECK"... Always have two races lined up on-deck and ready to enter the track--one on track plus one ready to go, and one forming up behind it. That way tardy, selfish or uncooperative drivers can't waste the fans' time.

START WITHOUT THEM... If drivers cannot make the call, start without them. Don't wait for them. Yes, they are the show, and they are customers too, but the Yankees don't wait for a player who's not suited up.

MID-EVENT TRACK PREP... Do you rework your dirt track between races? Avoid it if you can! Find ways to make it as brief as possible. At Boone (IA) Speedway, ROBERT LAWTON has enough equipment that he can do it in seven minutes, sometimes more quickly. At other tracks, crews mist with a light spray very quickly while cars clear the track and the next race comes on--with little or no interruption in the action. Make mid-event track prep so brief its “invisible”--no more than 7-10 minutes. We repeat: avoid it if you can.

QUIET FOR DRIVERS’ MEETING... If your announcer stops talking and the property goes quiet for a drivers’ meeting, it’s not good. Ball teams do not hold up a ball game while the manager and players figure out the batting order. Don’t do your work on the fans’ time, do it on yours. Most drivers’ meetings take 15 minutes or more. That’s the average fan’s homebound drive time.

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