I, too, didn't want to refer to any particular state. However, using the posted example, the fact remains California has twelve operating dragstrips as of November 23, 2013. As for the future, more will close and more will be built. The ratio can only be determined after the fact.
Florida also currently has twelve operating tracks with the addition of a new one just six weeks ago.
In most areas of the country, 2013 bracket racing attendance was higher than in the past eight years. The midwest had a banner season and not too many track operators are disappointed. The majority of suffering tracks are in areas of high competition among facilities. A track at which I regularly compete is one of nine dragstrips within a one hundred-mile radius, (eight are within a seventy mile radius!), but it, (and all but two of its competitors), did exceptionally well this season.
I'm not sure of your definition of a "supertrack" but there are now more National Event-style facilities, (seating capacity over 10,000), than there EVER were in the past.
Drive-ins, however, are not my forte.
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Originally Posted by k.pascoe
...there are areas in the country where drag racing scene isn't doing well. Such as KCIR a major city with out now a operating drag strip.
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Sure, KCIR closed. However, Kansas City still has two operating dragstrips within sixty miles. It could be two tracks worse.