About 10 years ago I rented the dragstrip at Gateway for 5 hours on a Friday for a group of about 40 racers.
It cost about $2,900 total, it was $75 a person.
I wrote the check personally so I know it was that much.
For the rental having an ambulance there was required (part of the cost).
Technically it was a test & tune with no side by side runs were going to be allowed to run.
After they decided that we could handle the side by side runs they let us do some.



For a weekend track rental they said it was $35,000, and that was 10 years ago.

It's not cheap to rent a track for a weekend event.

It's a lot of headache putting on an event and a financial risk too.

I don't get the $75 a day thing that some feel they're owed for.
You paid $150 for a weekend event on the entry form, not two events at $75 a day.

Even at that it was a 3 day event, not just two days.
You could even get in the pits on Thursday and get teched in and get your car ready to race.

The year before (2012) at Indy the Saturday Gamblers race didn't happen because of rain.
People complained because they did get money for the "Free Race" (no extra entry required).
Everyone was to it was a free race so they were out nothing for an entry.

It's the same basic thing, you paid $150 to race for the weekend. It wasn't two separate races you paid separate entries for.