In the "for what its worth" category, and not taking anything away from Keith Ford at Paragon, per Tr-State's website, kids 12 and under are free for all of their events. That seems to be the policy at most of the Indiana tracks, or was when we used to attend regularly. What we didn't see a lot of at Tri-State Speedway Saturday night was families. There were lots of guys, and lots of couples, and there were a few couples with a young (under 7) child in tow, but there weren't hardly any with multiple children and almost no pre-teen (10-12) kids in attendance, at least not on the backstretch. Since we haven't been attending races much for the last 10 years, I don't know if this is what is now normal or was unusual.

And before someone asks, we stopped going to so many races due to life getting in the way. A son in college participating in athletics involved lots of travel that taxed the budget in the early 2000's. Retirement and some health issues taxed the budget in the later 2000's. Moving 300 miles SW of Indy made races harder to get to. Not complaining about any of it. Just life!