Originally Posted by
gigaplex
That's why every club where I live is a non-profit run by volunteers.
I would love nothing more than for this to become more mainstream in the US. The need for tracks to generate profits has led to lots of things I'd consider bad for the overall health/growth of the hobby. And coincidentally in parts of the world where tracks are run as clubs, they don't have those same problems. What a weird coincidence.
Originally Posted by
jiml
No, PEOPLE are very fickle. And we need to understand that
Case in point. I keep mentioning Traction Action, the track near me. Now I don't race there (yet) but I know plenty of people who do so I go to hang out a lot. Even served as Tech Inspector for a couple trophy races.
Over the last couple years I've seen something that simply boggles my mind. There are some racers that will come in, take a look at the current track design, and leave saying "let me know when the track changes, then I'll come back." WHAT!!! And I'm not talking about casual racers. I'm talking about guys who are dedicated to racing. What are they thinking? What makes them think the track will even be there when they decide to come back?
I consider myself dedicated and loyal. Comments like that make me double face palm
Possible reason: there's a track in my region that rarely if ever changes its layout. Like, the layout has basically been the same for nearly two years now. People don't like traveling there to race because they don't want to lose to the locals who have been running on the same layout non stop for those two years.