If an advocate could be found - what would you say?

[Dave Gantz]

Originally Posted by GUMP

At the Orlando points meet I was the only car that pitted on the "spectator" side. I had a pretty steady flow of visitors. Almost every one of them asked me what the deal was with the way all the super class cars ran. I did my best to explain to them what was going on, but don't feel that I really won them over. Maybe this can be fixed with better announcing? I think that a lot more could be done to make sportsman racing more "fan friendly".

As a side note, the stands have been packed for Lights Out........

Spectators, understandably, expect flat out, who gets there first wins racing. Dial-ins, delays, etc., don't provide that.
Handicaps, 90 racing, and whatever else isn't heads up came about because the very nature of heads up racing results in a combination of hard work and money spent. Anyone can provide the hard work, but not everyone can provide the money. When this became apparent, racing started to suffer (low car counts).
If there was a simple, easy way to communicate to the average fan the fact that racing is what it is because of that "root of all evil", maybe spectating would increase.