Originally Posted by
topflightpro
Could it also be that demand is down because supply is down?
Could be. I don't think so, but could be. Seemed to me things tipped way down when gas prices went nuts a number of years back. I never saw it pick up again. Rather than drive to some big NE RR people stay in NYC and do the park race for $35 that has them done by 8am. Those races sell out weekly. There's a lot of factors to this. But racing isn't doing great in the northeast, and we have as many or more races than any other region. Yet every year more races go away due to a variety of factors including community push back.
I'm a club of one racing member basically at this point. The primary reason we keep going is my son is going to work for our sponsor and we've been around for nearly 25 years. If we had to put on a race we'd pack it in. I'm only going to do one USAC race next year. Everything else is unsanctioned.