Originally Posted by
Bubstr
Now I am confused. Liberal / conservative. Liberal wants change, but not in this case, they want to conserve. The conservative wants to conserve but in this case wants change. I think it's like politics, They want what they want and trow labels around as they wish. Does the party tell you when to conserve and when to want change? The constant I do see is someone saying, "your not on my side here is a label that says your stupid. Of course when you give that label, it says you are stupid. Even defending either position, says you can't think for yourself.
Provisional is a good and bad thing. First, if there was no series tours there would not be LM racing. WOO, LOLM UMP and regional series are what keeps LM racing alive. There just aren't enough Late Models to support weekly racing anymore, in most areas. The tours give those guys a place to race if they are good enough. The tours sell a show to the local track. They promise to produce most of the car count with quality drivers. To keep these quality drivers, they offer incentives and provisional is one of these. It's good for the Tour. It's good for the track, but it's not so good for the regional racers trying to race into a show. The bottom line as to how many provisional are given, will be determined by car count. If the field drops off to 30 or under, you can bet it's because the reward to the regional driver is not worth what is spent to participate. For us fans, it is frustrating to see our regonal driver that may be faster than one of the touring guys, get shut out of a race due to a provisional. All I can say, is be glad the touring group came to town and gave the local driver the chance. Some day the tours will have 80% of the field locked in with franchised cars. The local guy will have to buy a franchise to race, but there will be very few of the local guys. Something like building a Sprint Cup car and going to Daytona this week.