I'll second that. It costs me well over a
thousand bucks just to get to Maxton, sleep
inside, and eat 99 cent Mckaburger specials. If
there was a race or two a year that was within
500 miles of home, I'm sure I would try to race
more than once a year. I too drag raced, and
eventually road raced motorcycles, and a prime
consideration was that I could race on one day
trips.
Dick J
--- Tim Schoeny <tschoen@fuse.net> wrote:
> I'm not sure if more or fewer classes would
> have an effect on
> participation,but I believe proximity would.I
> started drag racing in 1960
> because I loved cars and was blessed with two
> strips in town-one 20 min. away
> and one 45 min away.Raced a couple of weekends
> a month for 15-20 years.More
> people in the US are closer to drags than they
> are to LSR facilities.In my
> case I'd love to run Maxton every meet but the
> 13 hour drive does bad things
> to the bod so I only go twice a year.That's one
> of the things keeping me from
> B'ville-I might get there but I might not be
> able to move when I did.It takes
> a lot more time comittment to do LSR stuff
> than some other more widely
> attended racing formats and time seems to be a
> pretty scarce commodity these
> days.Don't know how you clone Maxton or
> ElMirage but if you could I think
> participation in LSR would go up-gotta be some
> old airstrips in the heartland
> somewhere doesn't there?
>
> Tim Schoeny
>
> John Beckett wrote:
>
> > Jon
> >
> > The advantage or disadvantage of having large
> numbers of classes aside, I
> > don't believe there is a correlation between
> more or less classes and
> > attracting new participants.
>
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