No offense to anyone.....but the car owner list from '79 isn't exactly full of gas station attendents and bell hops. There are some pretty well healed guys on there.

Everyone's right....it isn't the same. The cars,cost, driver personalities and so on. All completely different. Everyone says:If we just do "this", then it will be good again. If we just do "that", it will be good again. Truth is: you could do all of those things and it wouldn't change a thing.

The problem isn't "rich kids" or "money teams"; the problem is that there is no problem. This isn't a piece of machinary where if we just replace a part here or there it will work again. This type or entertainment right now just isn't as popular as it once was. In pockets it is, but as a whole it's not.

No offense to anyone and I truely mean this: but this sports' legacy is dying. Literally. The generations who really took to it have been dying off since about 1979. This type of sport was very much like the spirit of the generation out of WWII. Very gritty and full of daring people. It was a rough and dangerous sport that appealed to a certain type of personality that seemed to be hand and hand with that generation. People wanted to see these brave men/idiots. As the generations have past and the cars have become more common and safer; fewer and fewer people see the excitment in just watching it. Today; we have a generation of people who would rather do than watch and they would rather win than just give it the ol' "college try".

So today we have more racing and competitors than ever before, but that is drawing from a realitively small part of the population. So as more people race whatever division they race, there are less people to sit in the stands and less people willing to be "field fillers". Why get your a$$ handed to you over here when I can search around and win over there.

The only exception to this rule is when something unique like the WoO are running because often times someone will give up a night of racing for themselves to go and watch the "best".

I will say this though; the USAC racing today is as tough as it ever has been and the quality of car is unbelieveable.

Like I said; everyone is right. It's not the same, but then again if you told some of the people in Florida in 1979 who are sitting behind their keyboard right now that in 2010 they would be sitting at home pi$$ing and moaning about the sport on a message board instead of being at the races in Florida; their response would have been: I'll still be alive in 2010? Bull$hit; have you seen the size of computer NASA uses? How would I get it in my El Camino?(Popular vehical many racers lived out of in 1979) What the *uck is a message board? I'll never stop going racing.