Also, as Racin Rev pointed out, the existence of MARCCA is a good thing for R/C Performance, it helps them sell kits and parts. If MARCCA were to go away, they would lose a solid chunk of business.

If the club can get its act together, it could still thrive, even with a dirt track in town. Nothing is preventing that. We've already proven you can draw 40-50 people on a Sunday race and you could still get some for carpet trucks (perhaps). But it needs to be run smartly, not the way it has been run in the past. We got partway there with an intelligent and thoughtful president, but then the sore losers figured out a way to get themselves back on the board -- by kicking me out on a popularity vote. They undermined a majority vote of the club members and no one even cared.