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goinbroke2 · 11-23-2013, 11:37 AM

I guess it's all perspective, My nearest track (of the four I must travel to, to be in the points series here) is 2hr's. The next is on an island 3hr's away. Third is 4hr's and the farthest is 5 1/2 to 6hr's. This is each way. Gas here is $5.10 per US gallon. All four tracks here are doing fine because they work together to coordinate 2 major meets per track on alternate weekends and the locals keep them running in between those major meets.

I see lots of new cars/people and notice a lot of old cars/people are gone. Total amount though seems to be the same, the only difference I see is nobody in the stands at 3 of the 4 tracks. (one track has a couple hundred to a thousand show up on big weekends, not just family either, actual "spectators")

When I was young, we had a local stockcar track 1hr away and the nearest dragstrip was about 6-8hr's away. That was it. Period.
Now there is a stockcar track 10 minutes from my place, they run gocarts too, there is mudbogging 10 minutes the other way. There is a 2 mile long sportscar track with 50 or so turns in it 15 minutes from here. There is "thunder in the valley" rally trucks and truck pulls here. There is lawnmower racing a couple hours away as well as boat racing, etc,etc,etc.
I fully agree that we're not a "car society" anymore, but to compound it, dragracing ain't the only game in town anymore. You want to race belt sanders? Look up the closest place to race and have at it.

I have no fear of "dragracing going away" because there will always be the select few that will drag anything and everything.

I think today it's more "I have X amount of $$ for my automotive hobby, what my hobby is though is no longer limited to stockcar/dragcar.

11-23-2013, 11:37 AM	#5
goinbroke2 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: NS CANADA Posts: 892 Likes: 1,646 Liked 393 Times in 153 Posts	Re: Trends In Our Sport I guess it's all perspective, My nearest track (of the four I must travel to, to be in the points series here) is 2hr's. The next is on an island 3hr's away. Third is 4hr's and the farthest is 5 1/2 to 6hr's. This is each way. Gas here is $5.10 per US gallon. All four tracks here are doing fine because they work together to coordinate 2 major meets per track on alternate weekends and the locals keep them running in between those major meets. I see lots of new cars/people and notice a lot of old cars/people are gone. Total amount though seems to be the same, the only difference I see is nobody in the stands at 3 of the 4 tracks. (one track has a couple hundred to a thousand show up on big weekends, not just family either, actual "spectators") When I was young, we had a local stockcar track 1hr away and the nearest dragstrip was about 6-8hr's away. That was it. Period. Now there is a stockcar track 10 minutes from my place, they run gocarts too, there is mudbogging 10 minutes the other way. There is a 2 mile long sportscar track with 50 or so turns in it 15 minutes from here. There is "thunder in the valley" rally trucks and truck pulls here. There is lawnmower racing a couple hours away as well as boat racing, etc,etc,etc. I fully agree that we're not a "car society" anymore, but to compound it, dragracing ain't the only game in town anymore. You want to race belt sanders? Look up the closest place to race and have at it. I have no fear of "dragracing going away" because there will always be the select few that will drag anything and everything. I think today it's more "I have X amount of $$ for my automotive hobby, what my hobby is though is no longer limited to stockcar/dragcar.