Serious concern for local racing

[abrungot]

Ok.. TQ.. since your so in touch with what the fans will pay to see.....

What should we have for car classes in 10 years?

[97car]

What racing needs is a class of car that is affordable and readily available. Look at what the hot setup was years ago, it started with the old coupe bodied cars, they were cheap and readily available. Too may rules don't help either, in the old days you showed up with what you had and hoped you had enough to compete. If you notice the older super modifieds had narrow tires for years, which really made you drive the cars. Most tracks only ran 2 classes of cars not 7. Spec. racers are not the answer either because you have to send everything to the builder and leaves no room for creativity and they cost more at least initially then a home built car.

[Definitive]

To the fans...it isn't so much about the car itself as it is the competition.A good close hobby stock race gets more cheering than a strung out late model race.We all seem to go to the track because of the late models but upon leaving we are talking about that three wide hobby stock race.The loudest the crowd ever gets at the AT&T Center for a Spurs game is when they have the "DOT" races on the big screen.The dots make alot of passes and right up until the end you never know which color is going to win.Work on the competitiveness,like Nick Holt did with his NASCAR late models back in the nineties, and it won't matter as much what is under the hood.

 

The THR Super Stocks rock.Even though one racer manages to finesse his way to the win almost everytime,you still get a lot of very good racing as he is doing so.

 

Biggest rip-off for us fans....qualifying/fastest car only has to pass 0,1,2,or 3 cars/then it's a glorified practice session after about five laps....yawn.