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Originally Posted by SprintRacer4
That would be the biggest mistake USAC could make, that would just be another class of cars that would be drawing money & owners/drivers away from real sprint cars & midgets. It's stupid. I was at the racetrack last week with our midget & we were running with 7 other classes of cars, all of which had about 10-12 cars. Rather then having 2 classes with 35 cars in each, this makes absolutely no sense to me. And I see it all over the country, totally idiotic!!!!!
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They are doing it to get every possible car, since they are making their living from the back gate. That's the way local racing is going. All the lower classes of cars run for almost no money, but there are 6-12 people signed in on every car. Just look at the crowd that comes out to get their picture taken with the winner.
We can argue all we want about what should happen with purses, organizations, etc., but the underlying problem is that today's kids aren't much interested in cars. Yes, they want to drive one, but they have no interest in working on them as a hobby. In fact, of course, as more and more of the car gets stuffed into the computer, they become more and more impossible to work on. :-( The only places I see many young people in the stands is at tracks out in the boonies where there are fewer alternatives. Even there, I'll bet most of our potential audience is home with their video games.