Just observing here.....

[Mike Pearson]

Probably one of the reasons there is almost no spectators in the stands when sportsman run at nationals is due to the time and day that the bulk of the rounds are run. Stock is out just after sun up and sportsman rounds are done by 10 am the days the pros run. Then the rounds resume after the pros are done for the day maybe even running after dark. One thing that might help with this is to change up the runnning order. Run a pro class then a sportsman class etc. maybe some would sit and watch. If you had some better sportsman announcers that could educate and make it interesting some new sportsman fans might be developed. But the way they are doing it now it won’t happen.

[Rory McNeil]

I don`t really think the lack of spectators in the stands for Stock & S/S is due to those classes being handicapped, (for the most part). Pro Stock is a true "heads up", no breakout, first to the finish line wins class, with incredibly close side by side racing, and still as soon as the first Pro Stockers pull into the water box, the typical "race fans" scurry from the bleachers en masse, as if NHRA was giving away free beer and T shirts in the Pro pits. If they can`t be bothered to watch Pro Stock, I really doubt that they would have any interested in watching "slow", (by comparison) Stock & S/S cars go down the track. Unless of course, the losing cars would crash and burst into flames at the finish line. But of course, that would create scheduling issues with the live TV broadcasting.

[Don Kennedy]

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

Probably one of the reasons there is almost no spectators in the stands when sportsman run at nationals is due to the time and day that the bulk of the rounds are run. Stock is out just after sun up and sportsman rounds are done by 10 am the days the pros run. Then the rounds resume after the pros are done for the day maybe even running after dark. One thing that might help with this is to change up the runnning order. Run a pro class then a sportsman class etc. maybe some would sit and watch. If you had some better sportsman announcers that could educate and make it interesting some new sportsman fans might be developed. But the way they are doing it now it won’t happen.

The present announcers are the best, Alan Reinhart, Bob Unkefer, Brian Lohnes, Bruno Massel,(Lewis Bloom( for some reason I like the stats he has plus he sounds good lol), Warren Evans. SCHEDULING IS THE iSSUE. The fans understand the chase in handicap racing they are not dumb. The TV schedule is the main reason schedule is screwed up all the time someone thinks that live racing is the cats meow

I don't like live racing it sucks> I liked the delay then no pressure to have a set schedule for live tv Just my 57 years of racing opinion LOL at me still racing until I forget who I am