[BigBlockBill]

I don't think 100% of the blame should be dropped at the doorstep of the tracks and promoters. The racers ourselves are as much to blame for lack of asses in the seats as the track owners. Why do I think that? Remember when we were kids and saw a racecar on a trailer going down the road or at a stoplight or sitting in an auto parts store parking lot? Remember your life goal at that very moment was to look at it as closely as possible? How excited you would get checking out the slicks, the rims, the body lines the open headers popping out from under the car? Damn good times and memories right? What have today's kids (and kids over the last 25-30 years for that matter) got to get excited about.....seeing a big white enclosed trailer being pulled by a motorhome. It could be the greatest racecar in the world or it could be hauling a few four wheelers and whatnot for a family vacation. It could even be full of garage sale bull**** heading for the next flea market. I know, many racers don't want their cars rained on or fear someone messing with their stuff or whatever, but we are as much to blame as anyone else. How about volunteering to take your racecar to the local highschool autoshop to talk to the future of our sport...um, I mean talk to the kids about every little thing about the car? The shopping mall in Flatrock Michigan use to have a racecar show inside the mall every year where the cars would be on display in the corridors and it was fun watching the little ones just drool over them.