Agree with racer43. Less cars means more racing room which equals more patience.
If you could standardize the rules somewhat, it would help. No one can tell me economy is the main factor, it's cost of living. The government, inflation, utility pricing, taxes are playing large parts. Secondly, why would anyone drive long distances for a race they would possibly not be allowed to run in? Everyone says racing was cheaper back in the day, but in all honesty wages have gone up almost on par with inflation. But the service fees, hidden taxes have taken the rest of our money. Income tax tables haven't changed in years, and it is proven the government makes more off of fuel taxes, than they do income. Most people do not factor in the transports, buses running nearly 24/7 on the highways, that burn as much fuel in a week that a soccer mom does in a year. I could rant about this for weeks, because it is killing our way of life in the "free world".
Anyway, how does this affect racing? The same way it's not filling seats in NASCAR. People have money, just considerably less than before. Luxuries, like racing, baseball, football tickets, or the equipment to do those things are not necessities. If my kids want to do guitar lessons, ballet, gymnastics and the lot... racing has to stop for me (and it has). I'm pretty sure I am not the only one in this boat, being most of us are blue collar working folk. There's a few out there, who have made it in life immune to the price of life. but less and less of us are.
If you could standardize the rules somewhat, it would help. No one can tell me economy is the main factor, it's cost of living. The government, inflation, utility pricing, taxes are playing large parts. Secondly, why would anyone drive long distances for a race they would possibly not be allowed to run in? Everyone says racing was cheaper back in the day, but in all honesty wages have gone up almost on par with inflation. But the service fees, hidden taxes have taken the rest of our money. Income tax tables haven't changed in years, and it is proven the government makes more off of fuel taxes, than they do income. Most people do not factor in the transports, buses running nearly 24/7 on the highways, that burn as much fuel in a week that a soccer mom does in a year. I could rant about this for weeks, because it is killing our way of life in the "free world".
Anyway, how does this affect racing? The same way it's not filling seats in NASCAR. People have money, just considerably less than before. Luxuries, like racing, baseball, football tickets, or the equipment to do those things are not necessities. If my kids want to do guitar lessons, ballet, gymnastics and the lot... racing has to stop for me (and it has). I'm pretty sure I am not the only one in this boat, being most of us are blue collar working folk. There's a few out there, who have made it in life immune to the price of life. but less and less of us are.
And also the standardization of rules won't help when every other track is running the same weekend.
If you could standardize the rules somewhat, it would help. No one can tell me economy is the main factor, it's cost of living. The government, inflation, utility pricing, taxes are playing large parts. Secondly, why would anyone drive long distances for a race they would possibly not be allowed to run in? Everyone says racing was cheaper back in the day, but in all honesty wages have gone up almost on par with inflation. But the service fees, hidden taxes have taken the rest of our money. Income tax tables haven't changed in years, and it is proven the government makes more off of fuel taxes, than they do income. Most people do not factor in the transports, buses running nearly 24/7 on the highways, that burn as much fuel in a week that a soccer mom does in a year. I could rant about this for weeks, because it is killing our way of life in the "free world".
Anyway, how does this affect racing? The same way it's not filling seats in NASCAR. People have money, just considerably less than before. Luxuries, like racing, baseball, football tickets, or the equipment to do those things are not necessities. If my kids want to do guitar lessons, ballet, gymnastics and the lot... racing has to stop for me (and it has). I'm pretty sure I am not the only one in this boat, being most of us are blue collar working folk. There's a few out there, who have made it in life immune to the price of life. but less and less of us are.
And also the standardization of rules won't help when every other track is running the same weekend.
I agree.
It was the intention for the #99 Jegs All-Star Tour car driven by Jake Ott to run in the GCR however with the difference in the rules we just couldn't see justifying the idea. We did our best to find some parts but we fell short. We did support the event by crewing on the 33 team. A blown clutch however shortened our race day.
The race was some what underwhelming but as a full support of Delaware Speedway we will continue to be apart of the show whenever possible.
I did grab a few pictures
https://picasaweb.google.com/jworacing/GreatCanadian200# 