What Are your thoughts?

[Mike Andrews]

Ok, I'll give you my two cents on this one.

 

Yes, gas is more expensive.  And that has an effect on some people.  And some people allow it to affect them.

 

This activity has become more and more popular and as a result organizations are doing everything they can to run more and more events.  And that is what I believe is the problem.

 

Most people have a budget that they work within.  Some have bigger budget than others but they still have a budget.  Now, back in the day when I started with the track program we ran four events.   And only one of them was a three day event.  We run considerably more than that now.  As do most of the other regions and clubs.  What that means is you can pretty much find an event on any given weekend at one of the surrounding tracks. 

 

So, if your budget only allows you to run a few events you're naturally gonna pick the events that you’d rather drive.  You have guys doing VIR instead of Shenandoah and Mid Ohio instead of Pocono and, well you get the picture.  And add on top of that the racing thing and fathers day and a holiday or two and DE gets impacted.  

 

 

But I'm pretty sure that extra dollar a gallon is not what's keeping people home.