It's the same thing that has happened at every race track in North America.  Class requirements change,  rules are adjusted, cars evolve.    The details might be different from class to class and track to track but the process is very similar  and the end result usually is the same.  Most of the cars will be obsolete if they don't change.

What concernes me is that this "acceptable obsolescence" started a few years ago, and the people that got that ball rolling are the same people that, around 2007, brought you the new and improved Powerade Modifieds.

That worked awesome. :-

It's the same thing that has happened at every race track in North America.  Class requirements change,  rules are adjusted, cars evolve.    The details might be different from class to class and track to track but the process is very similar  and the end result usually is the same.  Most of the cars will be obsolete if they don't change.

What concernes me is that this "acceptable obsolescence" started a few years ago, and the people that got that ball rolling are the same people that, around 2007, brought you the new and improved Powerade Modifieds.

That worked awesome. :-

Yes and No, from a parts/cost point of view. From what I have been told, it costs nearly the same to run a Mod as it did a Late Model. Payouts, and competition pushed everyone out as far as I am concerned. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that in that battle, I would have run a late model too. Pretty sure the Mod guys will answer farther to that point, but that is just what I know.

S.S is still fairly reasonable, compared to Late Model. Yes, it costs a boatload, I am not blind to that.... but I would run SS anyday if I hadf the choice of the two (SS or LM's). Strictly from the caliber of good people in it, and again costs.

You do bring up a good point, friend... but I think SS is going to be O-K. It's the lower/not-so-affordable classes that need help. Truck was originally the step up from Enduro. Now Enduro have damn near the same costs (possibly higher for some) as truck for a season. Ask some of those guys what they have into their cars... it's terrifying.

Luckily, Bone Stocks are there to grab the younger generation, and continue on our sport.

Yes and No, from a parts/cost point of view. From what I have been told, it costs nearly the same to run a Mod as it did a Late Model.

Yes, that is how it ended up. The problem was how they got there.

Modified was never supposed to cost as much as running a late model. That was not the intention when Novotny developed it. But once again, later management listened too closely to the fast guys and the chassis builders. "Sure we'll let that in, sure we'll let that in too."  It sure didn't hurt the chassis builders (a little mutual back scratching anyone?), but the division, as a whole, lost.

Then they handed the broken pieces back to the modified owners and said "here, fix this or else."

If I had one wish for Delaware, its that they look to the history of the track, right back to the beginning, see where the highs/lows/successes/failures were, take that history seriously, and let it guide their decision making.

The answers are all there.

Yes a very smart man once said; "A man that does not study history will be condemned to repeat it!"

Yes and No, from a parts/cost point of view. From what I have been told, it costs nearly the same to run a Mod as it did a Late Model.

Yes, that is how it ended up. The problem was how they got there.

Modified was never supposed to cost as much as running a late model. That was not the intention when Novotny developed it. But once again, later management listened too closely to the fast guys and the chassis builders. "Sure we'll let that in, sure we'll let that in too."  It sure didn't hurt the chassis builders (a little mutual back scratching anyone?), but the division, as a whole, lost.

Then they handed the broken pieces back to the modified owners and said "here, fix this or else."

If I had one wish for Delaware, its that they look to the history of the track, right back to the beginning, see where the highs/lows/successes/failures were, take that history seriously, and let it guide their decision making.

The answers are all there.                                                                                    .Shadowracer thats what i was thinking with the super stocks. it all looks to familiar!