Originally Posted by
CIRF
Okay, I'll bore everyone with my testimonial regarding when in life I began going to races. I was 8 years old and only during the last 2 years of high school and 4 years of college did I refrain from attending dirt races. Other than those 6 years of lapse's in judgement, due mainly to lack of disposable resources, we've been a faithful dirt racing supporter which includes a period of a 7 or 8 years when we were involved with a multi time championship caliber dirt late model team.
The starting times, track prep, excessive support classes, arbitrary rules enforcement, facility maintenance and aesthetics, length of program, blah blah blah, have all been adequately, if not excessively expressed.
Besides all the obvious my largest concern is the incorporation of policies of interest to young people. We all have heard and are aware of the aging of the fan base of dirt track racing in general. I do not pretend to understand how to more successfully get the kids interested and keep them interested but it needs to be a top priority. If that includes making dirt track racing more palatable to families then so be it. It's been done in the stadium motorcycle racing world and also with the monster trucks. Dirt racing really needs to figure a way to tap into that fan base but I'm not smart enough to lay out a plan to do it, but I'm sure someone, somewhere is.