A weekly series would work and would EVENTUALLY get cars when teams figured that the series would be there. No track wants to schedule a weekly series on speculation and promises on what will be. It's easy to schedule sprints because there are an abundence of them. Sprints are a sure bet where midgets aren't in the near term.

That and the purse has to resemble that of a local sprint purse because of the costs of running a car. Not many tracks are going to have what amounts to two headlining purses per night.

Make no mistake about it, 16th Street had cars. It didn't go away because of bad car counts. Long story short; the fans on many occasions came out and supported the shows, but many of the nights ran long because of down time and in the end the fans weren't really sure when the races were being run.

There are many things that go along with this and it is an extremely complicated subject with not one exact answer. While some point at the cost of motors(Which $40,000 is not the going rate for most of the motors out there) many owners I speek to; don't feel motors are out of line. In many ways; the variety of motors which is the thing that has made Midget racing appeal to many people, now seems to be a hinderence to the sport. So many people will point at whichever motor that won the most recent race and say:"I can't win without one of those". No matter that a motor like theirs won last week or last month.

For some reason people look at the Sprint Cars and say:"Thats just a Chevy. Same motor that has won for the past x amount of years." Truth is that a Chevy isn't a Chevy as there has been many developments in performance over the past 15 years. It costs alot to keep that Chevy motor competitive year after year.

I agree though that in many ways Midget Racing has some of the best racing out there. Maybe thats caused by having a smaller group of people who are extremely dedicated to what they do.