To be competitive at these races, you basically have to show up on the first day of practice... Makes it hard for the regular guy to do this as he is going to have to take nearly a week if not a week off of work to do so.... Some people just cannot afford to do this and I feel as though is a big part of the decline of attendance.... Even if there are only 10 people out of all the 6000 members of ROAR that this affects, that could quite possibly equal 30 more entries (3 classes) for the race... When put like that... it really means alot, especially if you compare it to last years nat's.... 30 more entries would have put the race at around 280 and only 20 shy of the entry cutoff.
I think the bottom line is.... How do we get the race to fill up every year.... and that is what we need to do to make it better....
But we have to try new things in order to know if it is going to help or not.... If we don't then we will never know.....