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Originally Posted by THE LEGEND
Jim,
I saw nothing in Tracy post about another race. Roxboro or KDS have never drawn a lot of cars for a combo. In fact nobody in the Carolinas have. I've never seen over 50. It's a shame the racers won't support it with fine promoters like we have here. At least the tracks are trying. If the combos go away you can only blame the racers.
That being said I have some thoughts why nobody shows:
1) No national publicity
2) No iron man
Like I always said " We race for jackets hats and trophys. The money is spent before we get it.
3) No contingency to fuss about not getting.
4) No Qualifying sheets
5) People like the multi day events. It's like they go to a party and hope a race breaks out.
6) No prestige
7) No NHRA/IHRA appeal.
8) I think another thing is still the economy. It cost a lot of money to go racing. In the southeast many of us have already ran 5-10 races this year. If you hav'nt won anything it's starting to be costly. Look at the entry list at the NHRA races now vs. 5 years ago.
I had a racer tell me he could'nt afford to go to a one day divisional race a wear his car out for the $1500 to $2000 he would get for a win. What makes you think they will come out for $1,000.
Fayetteville is having a combo this saturday. $3,000 to win with 75 cars. How many do you think will be there?
Chip Johnson
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Chip, i'm not sure about your post. Roxboro has had these races on their website most of the year and have been having these stock superstock combos for the past 5 years... so i assumed you knew they had them always on the 2nd sat...... I don't know about everyone else, but just the cost to field a stock or ss car anymore has hurt the participation numbers. We (in the 70's,80's and early 90's) had 80-60-30 cars on any ss weekend in that decade order. I've heard many times from the 90's forward from spectators "man, i would love to run class-just can't swing it anymore with a family" Me... the rest of you list you can keep, i love the competion of the sport.... outdriving and outtuning! I will be again thrashing another allnighter trying to debug my 57 on fri nite(fuel gremlins) to make Fayetteville sat. hope to be there and fast!