Trends In Our Sport
 

Forgive me for thinking out loud & sharing this, but lately I've not been able to get this out of my mind... Has anyone done, or know of gathered data for the following metrics:

• New racers, by category, class, state, city
• Parked racers (same criteria)
• Racers who've sold off operation (same criteria)

Also:

• New race tracks (state, city)
• Track closure (state, city)
• Operating tracks (state, city)
  • Basic revenue data (profit - loss)

I'd be curious how drastic the changes would look in graph format over a 50 year period.

Re: Trends In Our Sport
 

Gary, I can give you a sixty-five year "track report", (and I may be the only one who can).

No matter how many people want to argue it, the fact remains the sport has had roughly, (plus or minus five percent), the same amount of dragstrips operating at any given time between 1955 and 2013.

It's a fact; I've spent most of my life gathering proof.

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Thanks Bret...the sky isn't falling..!

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Thanks, Bret!!!

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That is amazing. Do you have a record of just the ones in South Carolina? There are a few newer ones, but it just seems like a lot of them are gone, especially the ones closest to me.

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Bill. most people can only see the past in one dimension. A state may have been home to seventy tracks over a sixty-five year period but the most important fact is they weren't all open at ONCE!

Even when viewed by decade, the number stays amazingly constant.

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Interesting.

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Bill,
I can reference to 25 different dragstrips in SC.
thanks, Roland

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Except in "California"

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Bret also knows in his home state the 3 drag strips in the last couple years have closed, and no new ones have been built.