[bobby]

I dont' know outside of Texas, but in the houston area there are 5 tracks within 2 hour drive. The valley has 1, San Antonio has 1, Dallas area has at least a dozen. In the Houston area, most of the tracks waits until HRP sets their schedule before anyone else makes theirs. I can't speak for the Dallas area, but with that many tracks, the operators need to get together and schedule bracket racing on NOT the same weekends, or at least days. The valley has no problems and S.A. should not have any problems with scheduleing. HRP sucks when it comes toscheduling. They have 2 day racing, 1/4 mile on sat and 1/8 on sunday. Then they start timetrials after 3 on sundays. They have the slowest program around. Angleton is a 1/8 mile track,usually 8-10 jrs, 30-40 footbrake and 15-20 electronic cars show up on anygiven saturday. They start tt at 5, round 1 at 7 and are done by 11.

So my rant goes as the more tracks in the area gives more racers an option to go elsewhere. If the tracks would get their scheduling act together, more racers could show up at one track one weekend and another the next. One track having a bracket race on weekend gives another a chance to do something else.