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[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by 71RS/SS396

Dannie, imho the reason you're not seeing the vintage cars out in force is, most know they have no chance of being competitive driving old iron. It's sad to see the genre of cars that built this series dwindling in participation. I think it will continue in this direction until this is just another racing series with late model cars competing. I understand why Optima is doing it this way, they want to sell batteries to the largest audience they can and there's a larger pool of late model cars than vintage cars.

This seems to be a "chicken or the egg first" classic..... My thought is that HAD Classic American Muscle turned out in sufficient numbers at the local events... you might not be seeing the number of late models and imports. It takes quite a few entrants to make these events worthwhile. If you need 70 cars to turn out and only 30 show up -- that's a huge loss.... and that's EXACTLY what we saw the first year or so. Low turnouts of those the series initially catered to. Then what's left?? Open it up and promote it to more entrants...

I don't know that people understand what it takes to put on one of these events. The club I belong to says it cost $60,000 (sixty thousand dollars) to rent Sonoma Raceway and put on a weekend event! That's 120 folks paying $500 for two days just to break even...