Fontana divisional rumor

[Mike Graham]

Originally Posted by onestocker

Mike I'm not sure you get the picture here... you dont sound like much of a blue collar racer you sound more like a retired wealthy man that apparently can afford to travel the united states and go racing whenever he wants and show up on Wednesday tech then have the option of test and tune on Thursday and besides if you need to test your cars why not support your local track on any other off weekend and prepare your car before you get to the race that way you are race ready when you get there , and i believe Mr Justin has a job and works and has 2 young children and maintains 4 race cars i dont recall ever seeing him with a "crew" ..... as a majority of us "blue collar" Working class people that cant afford to take multiple days off to race and test on Thursdays we have to take long nights after work working on our race cars then driving into the night and showing up late in the evening to wake up early in the morning to tech and race ....how do you expect new people to get into stock or any other class if it only caters to the retired people that dont have to clock in and out and work overtime just so they can show up on a Thursday when you can show up on a Friday night and still get the same amount of runs in on Saturday and race on Sunday and besides fontana is still going to have a test session on Friday so if you really need to test your car you can on Friday and be ready for sat

Who ever you are?
You don't know me. You have no idea When and where I race. I don't need to test. I enjoy it. We race both cars at the summit and ADRA races and support multiple combo associations. Having a 3 day race does not require you to attend all 3 days. Some very successful racers show up Sat for one hit and then go racing. That is your OPTION. Going to 2 days takes away my OPTION of showing up early. I have no problem with the track making a profit. If they don't we will not have a place to race. If they are not making a profit then raise the price. Anyone that believes that the $170 that it costs to enter one these races is a significant percentage of the cost to race is either very efficient or delusional. I am going with delusional.
Things go wrong at races, so when you compress the schedule there is no time to recover. Track prep will suffer. Safety will suffer. The fun factor will suffer. If this works then great. D7,Fontana,1 day, I don't think so. I choose to sit this one out.