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Originally Posted by polecar
work times have changed. my blue collar friends use to start work at 7 or 8 a.m. now most start at 5 to 6 a.m. hard to stay out late when to start work at 5 a.m. would it really be that bad if the races were over at 8:30 or 9 p.m.? so you could get home early if you wanted. or stay and hang out and visit in the pits for an hour or so.
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While 8:30 or 9:00 might be a bit of a reach, I do essentially agree with this. Last year at the POWRi micro show at Washington, MO, they had to be done by 8:00 because of a Huey Lewis concert on the fairgrounds. But because of this, almost all of the 5,000 folks in attendence stuck around and went down to the pits after the feature. Think how much that might have grown the sport. I wonder how many of those casual fans would've headed straight to their cars if the show had gotten done at 10:30 or 11:00?
Bottom line, I've said this before, but I firmly believe that we will see more and more tracks with early curfews in the near future. The recession has probably slowed down home building around tracks for a year or two, but that will take care of itself eventually.