Originally Posted by Charles Nungester:
Thank you Captain Obvious. 
And I have stayed home from traveling over a hour when I could watch it anyway when the weather was iffy a time or two.
The facts are. There's more higher paying races (Mostly Flo nights, Lucas and HL). Usac has some more higher paying shows and some incentives like winning all three championships is big $$ in a season.
The question was weather it's hurting, helping or neither to the tracks?
I look at a track like Florence which was always LM feature by ten, well run show. used to have a killer fan base and Super LM's almost every weekend. Now runs Supers four weekends a year and sometimes the crowds not that big.
My guess is people are getting pickier on what shows they'll go to and watch the rest streamed cause they can see em anyway.
I am friends with the owner of Florence. He straight up told me, there are not many "Local" guys running supers anymore. If he does not pay $8,000 to $10,000 to win, he struggles to get more than 15 cars. You cannot pay that kind of money weekly to have the series. He has learned that if he brings in a series, he can pull 25+ at those payouts. The new series that James Essex is part of comes in 2 or 3 times a year now. add on 3 night of LODLM, he is back up to 6 nights. I think this is another reason why he is bringing in HiLimit. They do the big events well.