Local combos vs national events?

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by Mike Delahanty

The most frustrating challenge is participation. We all read the pleas here on Class Racer for “More Stock and SS Racing” and how great it was back in the day. But when race day comes……..where is everybody? We all have lots going on today and not everyone can make it. But if we are serious about preserving our racing passion, we need to be looking for reasons to get to the race, not reasons to stay home.

Everybody likes the IDEA of those races, but it's not a priority for them.

I’m not sure there are enough of us to support another “Class Nationals”. I’ll stop here to thank Michael and Anthony for the 2 Class Nationals that they did hold and hope that somebody has the courage to try this again. They were fantastic.

Thanks for the kind words, Mike. We're honored to call you a Champion, and you live up to that on and off the track. There's been TWO $10,000 to win S/SS races this year ($100 entry), and both had car counts far short of being able to pay the purse, let alone if there was any track rental or other expenses, and the man paid it out of his pocket. That's shockingly sad. We broke even the first year and lost our butts the second year. Again, while people love the IDEA of the event, it's readily apparent that it wouldn't be "courage" that led someone to try it again, sadly.

But maybe there’s an opportunity to have a “Super-Regional” race where 2 or more of the associations come together for a race weekend. That will need the perfect blend of the right date, track and promotion to pull it off.

I suggested that a couple of years ago, as there were even adjacent S/SS Combo series that had competing events on the same weekend. It fell on deaf ears.