Midland Red Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 This might stir some memories! http://speedwaymemories.fotopic.net/c1122612.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 Free...I climbed in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom House Kid Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 (edited) Free...I climbed in Where you a backstraight boy? Edited April 9, 2009 by Custom House Kid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmauger Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 1974 at Hull, my first year of spectating, it was 30p entry (5p stand transfer) and 10p for a proggy.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK Rides Again Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 1974 at Hull, my first year of spectating, it was 30p entry (5p stand transfer) and 10p for a proggy.... Less than 6 quid in today's money; the argument for dropping admission prices gets ever stronger............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 Less than 6 quid in today's money; the argument for dropping admission prices gets ever stronger............... No it doesn't, DK. You have to have a fertile imagination to believe that cutting prices by 50% would result in attendances doubling. Much as most of us don't like to admit it, the reason tracks are poorly attended is that there are not enough people interested in going along. The only outcome, I suspect, of dropping admission prices would be a financial loss for the tracks concerned, and that wouldn't do any of us any good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK Rides Again Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 No it doesn't, DK. You have to have a fertile imagination to believe that cutting prices by 50% would result in attendances doubling. Much as most of us don't like to admit it, the reason tracks are poorly attended is that there are not enough people interested in going along. The only outcome, I suspect, of dropping admission prices would be a financial loss for the tracks concerned, and that wouldn't do any of us any good. Did I say that it would? And could one of the reasons that people aren't interested be, because they see it as poor value for money? There's a few folk on this forum, including I believe a couple that are actively involved in the sport at a high level, that consider speedway to be a £10 sport, and I would agree with them. Reducing the admission fee by half won't double the attendance, but it would be worth finding out at what level dropping entry fees would start to have a positive effect in footfall, even if you offered something like two for one, which shouldn't have any negative effects at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmauger Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 1974 at Hull, my first year of spectating, it was 30p entry (5p stand transfer) and 10p for a proggy.... That was kids rates, I was a lot younger then (weren't we all!), think it was 70p or so for adults which would be £12 - £13 in todays money.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 £7 at Newport in '97. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK Rides Again Posted April 10, 2009 Report Share Posted April 10, 2009 (edited) That was kids rates, I was a lot younger then (weren't we all!), think it was 70p or so for adults which would be £12 - £13 in todays money.... Calculated against average earnings, 70p is about a tenner. Using your figures, one adult, one child, two transfers and two programmes would be about 15 quid, which still compares favourably with today's prices; a family ticket for two adults, two children and four programmes at Lakeside, would cost you £44, for your dad to take you to the same place would be £23. Edited April 10, 2009 by DK Rides Again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Downes Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Crayford was £1.70 and £1.90 for a double header (inc programme) Tried to remember how much i earned to compare and remembered the old TRB song, The Winter of '79 which contains the line, 'a pint of beer was still ten bob' So by that logic, Speedway Admission should be around the same as buying 3 1/2 pints of beer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK Rides Again Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Crayford was £1.70 and £1.90 for a double header (inc programme) Tried to remember how much i earned to compare and remembered the old TRB song, The Winter of '79 which contains the line, 'a pint of beer was still ten bob' So by that logic, Speedway Admission should be around the same as buying 3 1/2 pints of beer! Still looking like speedway's only worth a tenner then, are there any promoters in the house? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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