[THE LEGEND]

If you will notice the div 2 and div4 races have less events also. My opinion is IHRA cut back a couple races to get the car counts up at the ones they still have. I think that is a good move.
Look at division 9 for instance:
Rockingham 50 miles
Piedmont 90 miles
Farmington 125miles
Mooresvile 125 miles
Dunn-40 miles

For someone like Beard that lives in the middle of the state it's less than that.
Then throw in out of division races
Darlington a double-90 miles
Carolina a double-225 miles
Probably two more possibilites of
Richmond double-200 miles
MIR double-300 miles

Then add
VMP Sportsman spectacular-200 miles
MIR Sportsman spectacular-300 miles.

Get the picture now. Thats 15 races in 11 weekends spread out over 7 months. In this economy thats about all most racers can afford and a lot can't even do that, so then they start picking and choosing. THat why races like Coastal Plains had poor car counts the last two years. I'm not going to single them out there were other races too.
Chip Johnson