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Originally Posted by Billy Nees
If you really want kids to get interested in Stock and SS then take your S/SS cars to the local track and run the local program! It won't kill you and might make you a better racer. Also, make yourself available to answer questions and maybe give a helping hand. Kids nowadays don't really want to get into rules but at least I've found that by BSing with them and trying to teach them a few things they are starting to understand and take a slight interest in what I'm doing.
Remember, we all started somewhere!
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That's basically the short version of what I posted on another thread. That's it: dead-on!
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spectators will never understand bracket racing.
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No, no, no, no,
NO! This is a myth, and an oft-repeated one at that. Bracket Racing is NOT complicated. It's not! Anyone who has ever watched The Price Is Right can understand Bracket Racing... and that sure isn't rocket science!
Explanation and promotion are all that is necessary. And to the "no fans"... did we all forget about 7,000 fans at the U.S. Class Nationals? Many national event tracks don't draw fans to the Divisional races or National Opens because either 1) they are not promoted well enough or 2) families set aside a certain amount of disposable income, and if that means they can only go to "1" big show a year, yeah, of course they are going to a National event before a Divisional. I remember Billy telling me that Maple Grove's Divisional race used to be a really big deal when it was the premier event on their schedule, until they got the Keystone Nationals, and then focus shifted to that.
Weather killed MIR this year. I believe the President's Cup has historically done pretty well.
Also, I've told the story several times before: Short version, I met a father & son wandering the pits at a Divisional race. I took it upon myself to talk to them, take them up into the stands and explain to them who and what they were seeing, and they "GOT" it in less than 5 minutes, and had a great time.
Dale - retired? I thought I saw a car with your name on it at the S/SS Combo at Fayetteville.