I hope they save the class, i just bought one and would like to race it next year!!! lol

If you knew the differences between Thunders and Supers staying on the same straight is doing well. Of course the racing world is full of arrogent Kyle Bush types but few who can seem to pull off better than the attitude. I expose my driver to as many challenges as possible at as many different tracks as possible.
It's a good thing everybody don't have the same attitude, if you think about that would only mean 5 cars in a race according to your theory. It's too bad NASCAR won't be seeing your display of talent since you wouldn't bother to tow that far to run less than 5th at Daytona 😮

I think you maybe confused about what I actually meant by that statement. The post that I was commenting on was a gentlemen (presumably in a class that is not a modified) was feeling like he was getting the short end of the stick and he wanted some money to move up to a different class. I understand that to race in any division here (excluding chaos) costs far more then 1000 dollars. But what my point is that the series form what we are told, is no longer profitable for the track. The track does not have to have a modified division at all. They could just say F it and shut it down, no money, no explanation, nothing.
I myself have only been apart of the Delaware community for several years but it would seem in the past that the Late Model division used to be comprised of different race cars. What did those owners do when Delaware switched away from the Sportsman Car? Maybe those drivers couldn't commit to running the OSS series and maybe they sold their cars. If the Mod division is gone, its not like the cars are suddenly worthless. Strip them down, get money from parts, the engine can be run in a different class at Delaware. Hell you could even keep that engine and use the 500 or 1000 dollars and put it into a new car.
To me the mathematical answer is that racing costs a lot of money, and as a driver or car owner you know that going in. The normal thinking person as you call it, would recognize that the economic value and the exchange involved in racing is not worth it. This normal thinking person would probably agree with your idea, there is more money in growing and selling flowers.  

I'll back up what Shifty said. It would have been plenty easy to just say "well boys, you're done...thanks for coming out." But it sounds like they went above and beyond what most track owners, past and present, would do.

Make no mistake about this, it sucks that the division ever had to come into question. They mod guys are some of the most dedicated guys in the pits and it shows in the racing. Even though there's only 4 maybe 5 guys that are truly competitive, the shows those 4-5 guys put on among themselves were excellent...and I hope we havent seen the last of the McCullough/Shipway/Cox/Newman battles.

However, the division is left with a low count and the owners, dollars and cents wise, must feel their payout money is better spent elsewhere. Its a business decision that they are well within their rights to make.

Truly, if I wanted to be angry about something, I'd be a little madder about the rules decisions/mistakes that got made that led to this. I'm no expert, and I cant make an educated opinion on it, but I'd guess things started going downhill right around the time that those newer, funkier body styles came into play...about what, 4 years ago or so? I dunno if they opened up the chassis rules at that point or what, but it was likely it. And with a division that has never had big numbers in its whole existence, it could be argued that they made a gross miscalculation on how many guys would pony up the $$$ to make the switch.

Even then, it could have been seen as a good risk to take. We made the jump from Tony’s late models to the rest of the world’s late models, and it flew. I can see how they thought it might for the mods too. Its just unfortunate all the way around.

So while I can see that the sum of 500 or 1000 might seem paltry compared to what’s actually invested in these cars, and that at first glance it certainly could be seen as a slap in the face. But if you stop and think about it, management has said “look, this isn’t working. The mod division’s having some difficulty, but we want to keep you on board. We can’t just buy your race cars right from ya, but we can at least make this gesture and offer a little bit of assistance if you want to make a switch."

Now I’m not here as a Delaware apologist…I think mistakes were made that didn’t need to happen that pretty much sunk my favorite division. The fact that our only open wheel division, at a place that was founded upon open wheel racing (if not for the Supermodifieds, this place would still be a quarter mile.) leaves it a bitter pill to take….so don’t think I’m blindly defending the speedway. But I will ask you this: Have you ever heard of any other track making the same kind of gesture to its drivers? Do you think the Flamboro owner would do it? Did the Styres offer any kind of compensation to its Dirt Sportsman drivers when the class was unceremoniously dumped from the Ohsweken lineup? As far as I know the answer is no.

And just by the way, lest we get all doomy and gloomy, the mods are getting this “switch divisions incentive” while the mods are still on the schedule.

So listen…all I’m saying is that the track could have just dumped the division, but they didn’t. It sucks the big one that the division is seen as troubled, but I think that, considering that none of the guys are really going to be happy about it anyway, Delaware’s handling it as reasonably as they can.

One of the crowd favorites near the end of the '08 season was the #44 of Robin McCluskey........and he was an absolute low budget team of one... plus volunteers. I believe he even won a feature near the end of the schedule.
    Last season he showed up with a late model, which according to broadcaster reports was indeed his OWM from '08......the fact that he got wrecked that night (winding up on top of the #5 and wedged into the fence) still indicated that he passed inspection and with his non-existent budget couldn't do any repairs to continue in '09.
    Point here is that what could have been the cost to upgrade to late-model and would the $1000.00 not be able to help the rest of the dozen or so OWM guys go up to Late Model??