[Mike Pearson]

The biggest problem I see is the track owners are no longer promoters. The track owner has to figure out some way to sell his show to the paying spectator. If they could get some sort of money coming in the gate besides the racers entry fees and have a better pay back then possibly the car counts would improve. I am a racer not a promoter so I don't have the answer. One thing I do know if the pay back was better I could do more racing. We are racing today for the same or less than we were 20 years ago and the cost has risen exponentially. IHRA also has the issue of some don't like to or wont race 1/8th mile. I do both and like both. Florida has gone almost all IHRA now so we will have plenty of 1/8 mile racing down here.