marty i admit i am one of those that hate it when you bring the late model...its nothing against you i hate it when ANYONE brings a late model to run in the "so called street stock" class. But i also know what the rules are before we load up and head to paragon... With that being said tho it is BS that if your car is legal to the rules they wont let you run it!! The car count isnt leaving b/c cOOper has won every race its because of the crazy rules!! Guys dont want to compete against cars that "SHOULD" win every week, and now that one of them is winning everyweek car count is dropping and fans dont wanna show up to watch the same car win. Its not becasue cOOper is winning, someone else will show up with a good running latemodel and win again... the reason 75% of the other indiana super stock drivers dont show up is because they dont feel like they can be competative and its not fair to run against the paragon cars so they simply run elsewhere where they are on a level laying field. Change over to Indiana Super Stock rules and that will allow cars from the other 4-5 tracks to run at Paragon and then the car counts will go up. Yeah you might run off the 5-10 bar cars that currently run Paragon but your going to gain alot more. (i doubt any of them are going to start running super late models- they will probably sell their car and buy a bomber or a superstock and still run paragon) Running cOOper off isnt a fix to the situation, just a Bandaid to keep a couple cars from leaving.

In Paragons situation i think the car count has little to do with the economy- everytime i've been to brownstown in the last 3 years we've always had atleast 35 super stocks... There are still a bunch of superstocks out there it just doesnt make sence for them to build a 20k plus super stock and go to paragon to get outran by a late model on a weekly basis.... Well me for instance this past weekend i decided to by a new set of tires and some new rear springs so it would make me more competative (spent a good $700-$800 on this stuff) and while it did make me more compeative, we get easily spanked by a late model and it turns out unless he breaks that we never had much of a shot to win in the first place... sure does make a guy not wanna come back, you just feel cheated... im surely not the only one that feels this way??

like i said its nothing against marty- with the way the rules are its just the way it is.....