When drivers are deciding where they are going to run,sure they think about the payout but I don't think it is a major factor I really believe it is travel.Most drivers stick close to the home track they have had in past.Also if I'm a 5 place car at my current track am I going to another track for end of yearpoint's fund which you probably not going to win anyways?

Just a side note to all this is another LLM that I could see running Barrie next year is the 20 of Dwight Brown. He personally told me that they were only at Mosport running the modified cause they had the equipment already! Now I noticed he quit running modified about half way through last season to run the LLM at Mosport and focus on the points in that division, and I know he really likes the Barrie track so I think he might possibly make the move this year but thats just my best guess!! I think Thayne hit it on the head when he said the LLM count should be virtually the same 16-18 cars thats the way I see it shaking out!! And the Baker car isnt Derek Downey's old ALSTAR car as far as I know Downey still has that car as I talked to him at the tail end of the season and he also told me he would consider coming out of retirement if he could find good and reliable sponsorship!! The car DWAYNE ran last year was the former ALSTAR car he himself ran in that series as well as competed in the LM division at Kawartha with!!!

Latemodel28 thanks for replying on parts and costs.  So the 604 crate is $5200 as compared to Barrie's 602 at $3069.91 as per Flamboro supplier MacMaster.  On the surface shock and brake prices look similar, but I would hazard a guess that the top cars at Flamboro had a lot more in there shocks that you had in your QA1's, do your rules allow Penske shocks?  No tire rule, so the top teams or the guys with buckets of money can bolt on 4 tires a night, wow there goes the winnings!  You say you ran your outside tires 2 to 3 weeks how many top 5 feature finishes did the 99 car nave in 2007?  The last question is not meant as an insult as we all race within our means, just if you want to compare apples to apples between Barrie's top five cars expenses to Flamboro's top five cars expenses I think yo will find Flamboro cars spent way more money to be competitive.

blkflagagain sorry to have to correct you but Dwayne's car was Derek Downey's Alstar car which Derek had purchased from Ian Bourque.  You are correct when you said Dwayne ran the car in Alstar and LM before he converted it to a Barrie LLM.  The car Derek has at home is his old LLM car and when I say old I mean it's probably 20 plus years old was once driven by JR Regan in the old LM sportsman days mid 1980's if I remember correctly.  That would be great if Derek came back which only proves my point that you don't need a high dollar new car to be competitive at Barrie.  Good luck in your sponsership search Derek!

Race8fan on your reply #20 you stated that Delaware ran 50 lap features maybe that was 3 years ago but if I am not mistaken they ran 35 lap features for Late Model cars last year