well marv said fuel costs and that probably is a big thing since most of the cars come from the indy area. how many guys can you name from the greater cincinnati area that have run off somewhere besides burdette? the pull from this area has sucked since the 90's or more. a lot of people have just retired like the law bros., rodney stone and so on. i forgot to mention vaughn, he now runs put. as for the mods there have been two new tracks built in the greater cincy area that took some cars away. now that put. has bumped up the purse it's going to get even harder to get cars. phylo, did you say you were going to put your boy in a sprintcar?