Noticed the other day where a $2,000 "Bounty" bonus was collected at South Boston for beating Philip Morris there in the weekly Saturday night show. Back in the day, postinga bounty on a particular driver's head was a fairly common occurence to continue to draw fans and bring in some "outside" drivers to a weekly track where a particular driver was dominating. "Up North", Thompson and Stafford Springs weekly tracks in Connecticut started paying so much "deal" money for Jack Tant and Clayton Mitchell to take their #11 Littleton, NC-based NASCAR Modified driven by Richmond's Ray Hendrick, that they started skipping their "hometown" tracks in Richmond and South Boston. Funny thing was, these same tracks paying the deal money for Hendrick were paying a bounty to any driver who could beat him. I guess that's just an example of old fashioned promoting at the weekly level by a couple of promoters who had pockets deep enough to go both ways. In any event, the fans got to see a larger variety of talent at their local track, even if their hometown heros were getting beat. Since most of the coverage we used to get of all the good weekly action is long gone, I have no idea whether this practice still prevails. Anybody know?
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updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
