A few thoughts:

Adopt a new format where heat races actually mean something. Invert 16, Top two in each heat go to a dash. Something similar to the Outlaw deal. Dashes are far more exciting then last chance races.

We also need to package the shows within a 3 hour time frame. No race should end after 10. When I grew up in California going to the pits after the races and hanging around the drivers meant everything. Here(Indiana) we race load up and head to the car wash while street shitters are running. If the feature ended at 9:30 and u said stay till 10 and talk to fans i'd say no problem. Leaving a track at midnight during sprintweek sucks for the racers and the fans.

Pavement sprints...most teams going to Richmond will have 2k wrapped up in three sets of tires. Anyone can do the math on that one after travel hotels etc etc. Hoosier sold midget tires to teams for Iowa that were unreturnable and will never be used again(8.5). We all know Hoosier pads Usac's pocket which I understand.....but doesn't Usac need to look out for their competitors on this one? There were 20 cars there and the racing was great. More pavement tracks like that....Anderson can have there HBO special not 50K sprints and midgets.

Another thought is the good ole frisbee toss. Each driver sign one and throw it over the fence before the feature. If your frisbee has the winning driver on it u get a free usac shirt. More stuff like that that makes it more of an "event."

Everyone seems to think TV is this answer. Maybe we should have starters then. Or how about we tie a midget behind a sprint and race that? How about some suggestions on how to make the racing better besides "we need tv"
and bring back the "combo car." Maybe instead of pavement sprint races run 10 races with wings on the dirt car that would be fun.