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Most of you know that Houston was not part of the 2020 SX series.
Interesting answer from Feld Senior Director Dave Prater in an interview with Weege at RacerX...
Weege: Technically an NFL team—and this is super simplifying it—they only play half of their games at home. So, if a stadium was empty on a road weekend, can you get in and out so quickly that an NFL team almost wouldn’t notice?
Prater: It would depend. Doing that multiple weeks, I don’t know if that’s feasible. But the other part is, it depends the surface. Houston where you got in on a concrete floor, you could do it much quicker than when you have to go in and protect the artificial turf. So, there’s so many variables in this thing. When you start thinking about it all at once, it can get overwhelming. Like I said, we’re trying to wait for those different things to drop and solidify, one being the NFL schedule, but as those things drop, we can start narrowing it down.
Interesting answer from Feld Senior Director Dave Prater in an interview with Weege at RacerX...
Weege: Technically an NFL team—and this is super simplifying it—they only play half of their games at home. So, if a stadium was empty on a road weekend, can you get in and out so quickly that an NFL team almost wouldn’t notice?
Prater: It would depend. Doing that multiple weeks, I don’t know if that’s feasible. But the other part is, it depends the surface. Houston where you got in on a concrete floor, you could do it much quicker than when you have to go in and protect the artificial turf. So, there’s so many variables in this thing. When you start thinking about it all at once, it can get overwhelming. Like I said, we’re trying to wait for those different things to drop and solidify, one being the NFL schedule, but as those things drop, we can start narrowing it down.
IF you ran it in Houston, there are other facilities (BBVA, MinuteMaid) that could support the event that require less "make ready" time than the Dome. You would still have the same challenges of running events within days of the primary occupant sport in town.
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He mentioned that it's booked in September already for an RV show.
Can we run the series at 6 outdoor SX tracks in Cali? No crowd, no travel for teams, televise it and go racing. It’s a last case scenario if stadiums are not available.
Screw the crowd - just televise outdoor races and move on.
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