Sprint car drivers would race for a watermelon... Promoters know this and fans know this, so you get to see USAC quality cars at a weekly show for cheap. Enjoy this while you can. Anyone noticing the huge car counts that afforded one local track 2-3 features on a Saturday night is not there now? An organization that used to field 30-40 cars an event could only muster 16 at their home track? Hopefully there is someone reading this who is smart enough
to .... Be able to fill every seat ... sell every hot dog...prepare the track so the fans aren’t disappointed... show up and cheer on their favorite driver from the best seat in the place... get home before midnight... and win the 50/50. In this Utopia the promoters, fans and drivers would skip and pick daisies. The only person looking in from the outside would be the car owners. These guys are disappearing not from the hard work, long hours or ego crushing failures but because of the imbalanced economics. When these guys leave, there are no cars for the drivers, no drivers for the fans, no fans for the promoters, no races for anyone to enjoy, and no IOW forum to complain about it at. I guess it boils down to the fact that anyone who owns a sprint car is the reason for this decline. We demand too much to race at your track, we don’t race at the right place at the right time; and we can’t race as much as you would like. We also won’t get on a message board and explain our choices so we can get lambasted for our lame decisions. So now you know who to blame next time the races are disappointing.
