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One of the biggest reasons more series don't do this is because it makes it hard to commit a car count number to a couple of particular tracks... there will always be one or 2 races on a schedule that are ill timed, or a much farther drive than most, or a track that historically eats equipment...if you give everybody a mulligan race you risk having one or 2 shows at those tough to get to tracks that everybody picks as their drop race and stays home...a series that always carries 15-25 cars could easily end up with only 6 regulars at one particular race....
POWRI is a good example of this...they used to have one race at one track in Iowa every year that typically only had 13-16 cars show up, even though they were drawing 30-50 at every race closer to their base....If POWRI had allowed the teams to drop a race or 2, how many of those 15 cars that went to Iowa would have just stayed home? Allowing a drop would have possibly caused them to have a show that fewer than 8 cars came to.
As a racer on a non existent budget I totally agree with the concept of allowing a drop or 2...but from the promoter side I completely understand why many series are afraid to offer such a thing.
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