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Mike,

I understand the whole asking for input from the racers to make the series stronger and find out what you are doing wrong....even if your doing nothing at all. The only problem that comes from this is no matter what you do or try people will find something to complain about. Rather it be something like you lined me up in the wrong lane during 1st round to the bulb was burnt out on the left side scoreboard. It is a "Thankless" Job!

I know each year once the National & Divisional Schedules are announced I put together a word file for myself and Lucky to find out what opening weekends we have to put races at. This year we are getting together with Dave Ley to put together SG,SC & STk/SS races all at one weekend. I found out first hand that no matter what you schedule people will go to NHRA Races over yours. I scheduled the .90 Event on an open weekend in 2010 except for the Bowling Green D-3 event, later on in the season they announced Charlotte was getting a divisional. To me I thought that was no biggy as both of these tracks are over 600 miles away for most D-1 racers, then came the phone calls and e-mails telling me they are going to drive 800 miles to Ky or 600 miles to NC over 100 miles to Numidia. Luckily enough a Hurricane came up the coast and we had to postpone it till this year. I would look into maybe into doing 3 to 4 double weekends at one or two tracks on non-nhra race weekends...

I took a look over the 2011 schedule that you had and even though people live in Ohio, Ky or Western Pa they will drive to a D-1 or D-3 Race Rather then come to yours, trust me it's nothing you are doing wrong at all cause you pour your heart in soul into the series and post on all the sites about the series but, people look at the schedule in the beginning of the year and go "can't make that race, it's on top of this, can't make that, it's on top of that" then all of a sudden they go I guess I'm not going to run Mike's Series this year. We learned our lesson a few years ago with MASGA cause we put a race on top of Mother's Day and had a horrible turn-out and we still get some flack from people if we put one on top of Norwalk or Columbus but, sometimes you have to look at it and bite the bullet....

April 2nd -3rd - Too Early, People are not ready for the season yet. Heck I know a lot of people who aren't even ready for Maple Grove at the end of May
May 29th - On top of the MG Divisional
June 4th - E-Town National Event
Sept 10th - E-Town / Tri-State Divisonals
Sept 17th - Charlotte National Event