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Instead of going to starters (an thus increasing the costs to the teams) to make the race evening more 'tv friendly', how about figuring out a way to get more puch trucks at the events. Be able to push off a whole feature in one shot (24 cars, 24 trucks). That would help with packaging it for tv, as well as increasing fan interest. Lets face it, todays youth are used to instant stimulation. If you force them to sit through a 10 minute break everytime a race starts or there is a red flag becuase there are 3 push trucks shoving off 22 cars, they will lose interest in the racing and look for another form of entertainment. And if we dont have that 8-15 yr old crowd getting hooked on racing now, how bad of shape is everything going to be in 15 years down the road.
As much as most of you hate wing racing, take a look at Knoxville and how they package the nationals for Live tv. They have the trucks to push off a whole feature at once, quick cleanups and restarts after reds. Before we got to showing the racing on tv, we need to package it so when people watch it, they are hooked the first time.
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