why are drag strips so much$$$$$

i just went to my local track 10 dollars a person to watch four cars then a car spraded anti-freeze all over the track and took them 2 hours to clean it up a hour left and they canceled the test and tune im so pissed i got 2 see my friend run once 10 cars i saw in all not worth the 10 bucks  
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Depends on the track. some have more cars come out than others. $10 isnt expensive but for nomore action than that I can understand.  

ur lucky ur even near a drag strip. i have to travel over 300 miles to get to one. that cost alot of money  

Thats an all day long trip. I can be at one in 45min running the speed limit.  

i live so close to the dragstrip i can here them run when i'm in the yard...makes it real hard to stay at home
spectator fee $5...kids under 12 are free
$15 to run what ya brung  
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Those are good prices.  
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those are wednesday and friday test and tune prices
i think saturday is $10 to watch and $25 to run
and the pits are open to all...and you are expected to be able keep yourself out of the way...staging lanes and such

i just LOVE self-responsibility  
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fuzzy dice, air shocks & N50's rule

lucky. so hard to do anything around here. i want to build a street/strip car out of my el camino but theres no strip to go to. sucks living in the middle of nowhere  

I think the much better question is why do drag strips allow antifreeze in cars that are running on the track.  Take a clue from the roundy-round guys (the ones that crash a lot) and make antifreeze illegal in the car.  The problem (as you learned to the tune of $10) is that antifreeze is next to impossible to remove from the track once it is put down.  Seems like a no brainer to me.  

Heh you think thats bad? I live 5 miles from Zmax and they have only held 3 test and tunes since its been open! They charge 15 bucks and i was car # 101 that night and I saw car# 158 so who knows how many really showed up.  

I was watching Pinks Allout and Rich flipped out on some guy cause he was runing anti-freeze at the track, so I guess some tracks (or at least Pinks Allout) have rules against runing anti-freeze/ coolant.  

i didnt know that....makes sense.  

Some track rules dont make sense to me. Anti-freeze at the track serves no purpose  

300 miles omg  
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