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What needs to be done is too educate young kids to the fact that "drifting" was pretty much invented by dirt racers and is alive and well at the local dirt tracks across America. These kids are going crazy over this "drifting" sport and it is attracting big corporate $$$$ but, if you ask a kid if he's ever been to a sprint car race, he'll ASK: WHAT IS A SPRINT CAR? I taught school for 30 years and talked to kids about racing. Young kids simply are not being exposed to the sport. I went to the non-wing races at East Bay, each year they had them, and the crowds were terrible and very, very old. I was 53y/o the last show they had, and I brought the average age in the stands down by 10-15 years!!!! It really was sad. Not that there is anything wrong with us "older" fans but, as we die off no one is replacing us. It is a huge promotion problem. There are great resources out there to tap, but it takes lots of leg work and being on the phone to get it done. Most promotors today either don't have the will or, the ingenuity to get it done. They would rather simply add classes of cars that bore the fans to death.
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