Part of what hurt drag racing

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Stephen & Horace Johnson

Hey ken count me as a youngster. . I let my dad take the class winner pic instead of myself. He has never had his pic in the national dragster and I thought he deserved too..

On another note the young people are not interested in spending the amount of money we spend to race a class car. . They can run an outlaw car far cheaper , alot quicker and faster and run races every weekend at a cheaper entry fee and if they win get paid a good amount...

^^^^^^ This.

In the shop, when you have a young racer looking around, they're stunned at the work involved, not to mention the expense. They do not want to work that hard, spend that much, or learn that much, never mind stay within a tight set of rules. It's just not giving the instant gratification they seem to need.

Further, as a society, we're rapidly drifting farther away from rugged individualism, and from an enthusiastic automotive society in particular.

We have maybe 20%, at best, of the youth population to draw from, as opposed to 60%, and of those 20%, maybe 5% of them, probably a lot less, are interested in the sort of racing we do, or older cars, most that are, are children or relatives of current participants.