In most parts of the country we are only a month or two into the racing season for the open wheel racing that we all love. An observation from many of the post on here this week car counts are extremely low all over; 11 sprints at LPS tonight, 18 sprints at the Burg tonight, 10 sprints at Montpelier last night, Wed. night 7 Ford Focus, 4 .25, 8 midgets and 5 young gun started their respective features at the Speedrome. Oswego Speedways supermodified ranks aren't doing any better, they have not had twenty cars start a feature yet this year,

As RaceFan20 mentioned in another thread when racers are invovled in crashes they are finding it more and more diffcult to come back. Sponsorship money is harder and harder to find in all levels of motorsports in todays economy.

So, you can call this a suggestion, challenge, novel idea or whatever on any given night at any one of your favorite race tracks if you are fortunate enough to find you have an extra $25, $50 or even $100 in your pocket go down into the pits after the races, thank your favorite driver for entertaining you on that evening and give them what ever you can to help get them back to the track next week. This idea is espically helpful to a racer down on his luck, one young supermodified driver comes to my mind in three weeks of racing he lost an engine on week #2 and severly damaged the race car in an accident where he was involved in someone elses crash with no where to go on week #3. We all know what a crash like that looks like. So if your favorite driver is in the stands on the night you find youself able to help he surley can use that help.

Again just my two cents worth, do what you can to help.

Patti