Originally Posted by David Lynch:
Too many support classes. Drop the crates & Pure stocks. I come 3hrs to watch the Sprints and it makes it a long night sitting out all 5 classes. Hint: Haubstadt has never ran more than 3 classes, the same family has kept the track a success for 51 yrs now.
I'm usually one of the first to complain about too many support classes, but I really think you're being unreasonable here. I checked the results, and it appears that they only had 10 crate lates, and 15 entries each in the street stocks and pure stocks. How long could it have taken to run 10-15 car classes?
You said you came 3 hours to watch the sprints. Perhaps you could have checked the tracks website before you left. You would've known that they were running those extra classes. I know in the past that I've based decisions on whether to attend shows based at least in part on how many support clases were on the card. Besides, if you drove 3 hours one way, that means you had to have come, what, 175-200 miles? How much did that cost you in gas at $2/gallon? In the context of what you would've spent, it seems like it would be a drop in the bucket to just spring for a pit pass so you could go for a stroll in the sprint pits when the support classes were running. Maybe if all the folks who complain the loudest about too many support classes would buy the pit pass, tracks wouldn't feel the need to run so many extra divisions.