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As times get tougher, I don't necessarily think the sport has to disappear. I think the national/traveling (USAC/WOO etc.) stuff might be in trouble sometime down the road but, these racers may just have to live within their budgets and race locally, as many of us do anyway. Clayton, Bacon, Ballou and Schuerenberg all probably had family owned cars before they caught on with the Jeff Walkers, Kasey Kahnes and "Truckers 24Hrs" of the racing world. They may just have to go back to their sprint car roots and run closer to home as the majority of us do. 99.9% of the racers in the sport today have no illusion of making a living driving a sprint car or midget, nor should they. It's just not that kind of sport. Anyone who is making a living at it is doing so at the expense of someone else who can afford to throw the money away. Nobody is "making" money running a sprint car/midget.