How did Inside Track go so horribly wrong ?

[Pinecrest]

 My second job in racing was working for Dizzy Dean who was a great guy and put out a great motorsports newspaper WheelSpin News . I have to wonder what Dizz would have thought about Inside Track at this point ? Last month their lead stories were about people riding bicycles around at Mosport and how DJ Kennigton did at Daytona . This month one of their breaking stories is about mini stock drivers delivering pizza .

 I have been in several garages this spring and seen some unique cars being built but i don't see anything about them in Inside Track . I know of a few new drivers entering car racing from other disciplines and i have seen some brand new sponsors that just a few years ago you would never associate with motorsports but i don't see them in Inside Track . .

 Inside Track does seem to to cover a lot of revision in track schedules but i can get all those on line faster. While sites like this have huge growth i see the Inside Tracks slowly dying .  Maybe its time to just stop chopping down trees to decimate old motorsports news . I think Dizz would have agreed .

 

 

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[barriefan1]

Boy.

The glass is always half-full, isn't it?

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[Pinecrest]

Boy.

The glass is always half-full, isn't it?

 The proper quote would be "the glass is always half empty"  if your implying i am a pessimist .
 I was hoping for a little better thought out first reply but their is little i can do about the quality of the posters .

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[jcrashm2]

The mini, thundercar and late model drivers from Kawartha are donating their time to serve at a Boston Pizza with a percentage of the profits going to Big Brothers and Sisters...I think it's a great story myself.

A story about a ralley car doing donuts on a ski hill is not interesting. Maybe if there were skiers coming down the hill at the same time..lol.

I stopped subscribing to magazine years ago when the post office went on strike. If I see it on the rack at the store I would buy it if it had local info. I can catch up on F1 and dirt bikes (if i'm bored) on Speed. But like "Circletrack" and "StockCar Racing" magazines, I don't see Inside Track at any near by stores. I do check their site and blog every week.

If anyone is interested in old "StockCar Racing" mags, some as far back as 1979, I have 3 large plastic containers full for sale...include Allison, Kiwicki and Earnhardt tribute copies. Need room in my garage.

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[barriefan1]

Boy.

The glass is always half-full, isn't it?

 The proper quote would be "the glass is always half empty"  if your implying i am a pessimist .
 I was hoping for a little better thought out first reply but their is little i can do about the quality of the posters .

That's okay. We love hearing your rants anyways.

Yep.

That there is sarcasm... apparently, you've never heard of it.

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[Just_A_Fan]

  I have been in several garages this spring and seen some unique cars being built but i don't see anything about them in Inside Track . I know of a few new drivers entering car racing from other disciplines and i have seen some brand new sponsors that just a few years ago you would never associate with motorsports but i don't see them in Inside Track . .
 

Perhaps you would consider being a contributing editor, then you could formally share such stories with everyone?

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[barriefan1]

As they say...

"If you have the time to complain, you have the time to help."

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[LMFAN]

I love when guys kick the messanger.
In My opinion I think the magazine has tanked but keep inmind I am a Delaware fan and they decided since Delaware was not sponsoring them they were not going to print anything about Delaware.
I see there point but they have alot of people that but the magazine that are from the Delaware area and that does not seem to matter to them.
So I for one can tell you I will not be renewing my subscription this year because of the Delaware thing and also because I feel it has gone down hill.

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[mike32]

I guess the internet has really killed the motorsport press, at least the weekly or bi-weekly format.  New England's Speedway Scene packed it in last year and I'm really starting to debate if my favourite, Area Auto Racing News, is worth the $125.00 US per year we Canadians are charged for this paper. Extra postage to Canada must be a storage charge!
 One thing Inside Track should do, and may have done already, is give up on weekly results-as who wants to read what happened at another track 6 weeks before? And have they turned away their core audience with car reviews, bike articles, go karts, etc.  Perhaps less bias should be shown also to certain Sanctioning bodies. Maybe the solution is to cut back to Eastern Canada only. By trying to please everyone, no body seems happy with the local coverage.
 PS-is PRN still around?

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[oldbill]

As usual, Pinecrest is living in the past.
Those of us who were around can remember eagerly waiting for the monthly (or weekly in the racing season) edition of Wheelspin News to find out all the latest news, gossip & rumours from all the local tracks. It was great.
Times change! Dizzy Dean was a great and unique guy who had friends and contacts all over the place to feed him information. Probably no one could duplicate what he did.
Like many others, I stopped subscribing to Inside Track and to PRN before that because they didn't deliver the sort of local news that Wheelspin used to. I really didn't want to read about Daytona 2 months after the race!
The biggest change was this media. It is easier and faster to get the latest news, schedule, etc for free over the internet. Unfortunately there is not a good Internet site in this area for local racing news. The Inside Track breaking news blog is about the best I have found. I think the area tracks are missing a good opportunity by not having someone collect and post the sort of news that Wheelspin used to deliver.


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[mike32]

Bill: agree with most of your points. What I'd like to see is a "results" section on this website where one could post the results of their weekly tracks. (www.dirttrackdigest.com
 has one on their forum for example where it's easy to post results and rain out info.) ML

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[hill3]

greg i for one thank you for your support out west. i still buy mags and lps/cds when i can. i find it a little hard to go to a sponsor to show publicity from a web site. i also prefer to read inside track or circle track rather than the computer when taking a dump. no pun on content. that being said mags do face a threat from the internet but can survive, it was only five years ago that newspapers were suppose to die, has not happen yet. give inside track a chance to carve a niche in todays world they will be fine.

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[3-Wide]

I enjoy insidetrack, although I agree the weekly results and such are rather pointless now because of the Internet.

but some of the stories I enjoy reading... like recent ones on, Bill Borrows & Vic Parsons ect.  you can't get those stories anywhere eles, so to me I get inside track every month for that sort of stuff, and it's always a great read.


and btw, the breaking news blog I check at least once daily.

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[CanadianRacingOnline]

That is ok by me I can put a results section and people can post to it.

Bill: agree with most of your points. What I'd like to see is a "results" section on this website where one could post the results of their weekly tracks. (www.dirttrackdigest.com
 has one on their forum for example where it's easy to post results and rain out info.) ML

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[Mobil1fan]

I think he meant something like that for Inside Track, Evan, as we sort-of do that already here...

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