Too many tracks?!?

Posted by: rcaster

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I never thought I'd say it, but right now in SoCal, we honestly just have too many tracks!  Racers are now spread between about 6 or 7 locations (if you count the parking lot tracks running as well) within a 30 mile distance of each other.  3 of these tracks are indoor facilities on top of that!  Although it's great to see race directors trying to pump up on-road racing, it is really just killing race turnouts at the individual tracks.  It seems like a new track will open, thrive for 3 or 4 months, and then the crowd will flock to a newer track leaving the previous one with horrible turnouts.  Unfortunately, already in the past year a couple of tracks have been shunned and eventually just closed the doors...

It's mainly because of this that I have been running more and more electric off-road, where turnouts are fairly consistent and the competition is always good.  Happy to say that last Saturday there was an A and B main for 2wd modified at a normal club race.  Right now seems like a good time to sit back and let the on-road tracks battle it out while I get more and more wheel time with the EP off-road cars like the TRF511 and soon to be released TRF201.

One good note for the sedan side of things is the directors of the Reedy Race have selected a host track for this year.  Although the announcement is late I'm hoping that they will end up with a good mod turnout, if so I'll head up for that race as well.