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This Saturday, 10am–2pm at California Truck will be a huge Toy Drive & Car Show. Bring a toy, check out some cool cars, ...
12/05/2025

This Saturday, 10am–2pm at California Truck will be a huge Toy Drive & Car Show. Bring a toy, check out some cool cars, and hang out.

The Bakersfield Christmas parade. There are so many people involved with this event. Great job to all who participate.
12/05/2025

The Bakersfield Christmas parade. There are so many people involved with this event. Great job to all who participate.

We've got two drivers at the Gateway Nationals, at the Dome, in St. Louis, that were from Bakersfield. Ethan Dotson and...
12/04/2025

We've got two drivers at the Gateway Nationals, at the Dome, in St. Louis, that were from Bakersfield. Ethan Dotson and Troy Morris III. Good luck guys. Try to keep the cars together.

Kern County Animal Services at 3951 Fruitvale Avenue is completely out of blankets for the animals. They are in despera...
12/04/2025

Kern County Animal Services at 3951 Fruitvale Avenue is completely out of blankets for the animals. They are in desperate need of anything the community is willing to donate.

Have you been following the lawsuit from Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin. It could have huge implications if they win. ...
12/04/2025

Have you been following the lawsuit from Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin. It could have huge implications if they win. Here’s a breakdown of what’s going on.

Who’s suing and why:
The lawsuit was filed by 23XI Racing (co-owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin) together with Front Row Motorsports. 

They filed suit in October 2024 after they were the only two teams refusing to sign NASCAR’s new charter agreement for 2025. 

What they’re accusing NASCAR of:

In short: unlawful monopoly, i.e. anti-competitive behavior.  Specifically:

They argue NASCAR and its leadership (the France family) have created an effectively monopsonistic system: one where NASCAR has so much control over tracks, suppliers, race entry, and business terms that teams have no realistic alternative, forcing teams to accept terms that benefit NASCAR disproportionately. 

The core gripe centers on the charter system (introduced 2016). Under similar systems, charters guarantee teams a starting spot in each race + a share of revenue/purse money. But 23XI and Front Row claim the new charter agreement terms (set for 2025) were unfair: distribution of money is skewed, and the structure makes it nearly impossible for many teams to turn profits or compete fairly. 

They say NASCAR uses exclusionary tactics, like restricting teams’ ability to race outside NASCAR-approved events, forcing use of NASCAR-approved suppliers, locking teams into rigid contracts — limiting freedom and competition across the broader stock-car/racing market. 

What they want

The lawsuit seeks to force changes to how NASCAR does business, potentially dismantling or restructuring the charter system; giving teams more fairness in revenue sharing; more freedom to compete; and ending what they view as monopolistic control. 

Because this is a big deal, the outcome could reshape NASCAR’s business model, and how teams operate, get paid, and compete going forward

12/03/2025

MCT editorial: Getting people excited about your product requires being excited about what you're offering. That includes dirt tracks.

I use to design the front of the newspaper. One thing I said often was, "If I'm putting this together and I'm not excited about it, why would anyone else reading it be excited about it?" When I did things I was excited about, I put together some pretty awesome stuff. I went off to create a magazine that a lot of people were excited about because I was excited about it. I showed people some things they never saw before. The excitement was my fuel for being creative.

That holds true to anything in business, race tracks, even selling vehicles or running a media page. People feed off your energy, even if you fail from time to time, people will still get gravitated towards someone that is excited about doing something. Sometimes it's throwing ideas at the wall to see if it sticks, sometimes it's talking with people, getting them excited. Of course a big component is just communication.

Back in the day, a good chunk of the time for promoters was getting on the phone early in the week, enthusiastically making calls, asking drivers what they needed to get to the track. Maybe someone needed a part, maybe they were short on gas money. A conversation that has, "Let me see what I can do," goes a long way.

Pulling sponsorships from businesses for the track gets a heck of a lot easier when you call them and act excited about what's coming. I use to sell ads in BTUFF and sometimes the companies would say, "I'm excited about this and I don't even know why." Well, it was because I was excited about it and they fed off my energy. Selling partnerships on anything is directly tied to the excitement of the person selling it. Same goes with getting people in the stands. You have to sell the show, give the people a reason to be excited.

Even when criticism arises, it's much harder for that to stick if you're excited about what you're doing. Yes, you will have a small pocket of upset people, but they get washed out by that much larger amount of people feeding off your positive energy. It's short term compared to the long-term support you achieve.

This is just what I've learned from doing business. Take it for what it's worth, Billy at MCT.

Ventura was sold out last weekend. Glad to see any California track full of race fans.
12/03/2025

Ventura was sold out last weekend. Glad to see any California track full of race fans.

Let's do a pair of tickets to Holiday Lights at Calm. Show us a photo to get us in the Christmas spirit and pick a numb...
12/03/2025

Let's do a pair of tickets to Holiday Lights at Calm. Show us a photo to get us in the Christmas spirit and pick a number 1-500

12/02/2025

Want to learn a new skill? Start a new project, getting in so deep the only option is to figure it out.

12/02/2025

What was the first car you ever drove? Who taught you how to drive?

MCT editorial: Maybe it’s time for dirt tracks to get on board with what people really want in December, a cool Christm...
12/01/2025

MCT editorial: Maybe it’s time for dirt tracks to get on board with what people really want in December, a cool Christmas wonderland experience.

If you look at Kern County, all the Christmas events are packed. People are craving for more Christmas things to do on the weekends.

What if tracks gave those people a great Christmas racing experience through December? A holiday lights extravaganza as you walk in. Hot chocolate booths, bakery items, fake snow being blown everywhere, Santa and Mrs Clause taking pictures with kids. Holiday music playing. Racing going on with the track decorated. You get the picture.

If you did it right, December could be the biggest weekends of the year at dirt tracks. People would look foreard to it like all the other things.

Just a thought, looking around at what people actually want in their community.

Nice to see Landman getting more interesting. Probably the best episode so far.
12/01/2025

Nice to see Landman getting more interesting. Probably the best episode so far.

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