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Originally Posted by Bill Baer
Well were once again going to Indy and while we do not get a lot of racers by traveling beyond our four core race tracks you mentioned if we don't try to let other people experience racing with us ,we will stop growing and our numbers will shrink and eventually there won't be enough of us to make it worth while.(Every year we lose one or two racers )
Then you'll be back to towing 4-8 hours to go to the NHRA/IHRA races which in the case of the NHRA represent 3-4 days and only one race.( Not to mention the poor payout)
We have in the past gone to Earlville, Havanna, US 41, and Martin all of which we have not gone back to for various reasons.
Ryan is an example of someone we may picked up on because we went to Earville.
If you have some suggestions as to other ways to attract racers to give us a try I'm definitely interested.
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Bill, for what it's worth I think you have a point. I didn't race with you last year, but I just didn't get out much last year. The year before that I raced with you at Cordova and Earlville (both good tracks for the most part). If you want to grow at all or at least gain new members to make up for those that "retire" you will have to expand your area a bit. I would like to plan to attend some races with you guys this year if I can make it work. I would like to say I will be able to race a bit more than I did last year and I enjoy racing with your group. Depending on the dates, I would like to go to Cordova, route 66 and possibly Indy. I would prefer to only go to the 2 day races as it obviously makes more sense to hit 2 races with one tow if possible. I don't think you will see me at Byron (Ron drives me nuts) and I haven't been to the grove since NHRA stopped racing there years ago. From what I remember it was rarely safe enough to run 1/4mile there and we often had to switch to 1/8th mile.
Just my .02