How about a little good news. Just ran the Night of Thunder event at National Trail Raceway in Columbus Ohio last night. A track that simply can't get racers or spectators in the facility on a typical weekend. The track manager said at the conclusion of the event at 2:00 AM that this was the highest attendance event they have had in 5 years. The place was packed to the house. It's all about having cars that people actually want to see that packs the stands. I know as racers we don't all love these cars ourselves, but the average or casual drag race fan wants to see exactly what they delivered. Nitro fuel altereds, alcohol and nitro nostalgia funny cars, weird match races, and Nostalgia Super Stocks. Finishing up with jet match races and Bob Moats. A couple of nights like this a year can float a track like National Trails the rest of the season for the "serious" weekend racer and keep the doors open. A smart track owner/operator should understand this and provide a mix of events for spectators AND "serious" racers to be successful. Of course a few rainouts of special events can screw up the whole deal for the year. I put serious in quotes because even though we are "part of these shows" we are serious about Pontiac Performance. The Grocery Getter ran a 4.95, 4.94, 4.93 in our three runs at over 144 MPH, in 3600 ft air.
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