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A thought lately really has been on my mind, so Ill throw it out there. The fact is, we have a class for every kind of car you want to build. From a Ford Tampon to a Leaf Spring Bullet to a 1/2 Street stock, 1/2 Late model to a Full blown $ 80k race piece, with a wing, without a wing, you name it.
It is also a fact that they only thing happening is that we keep dividing the same car counts, and since this area uses mostly odd ball rules, it limits anyone else from coming in, or anyone here from traveling far in most classes.
Its no secret that the street stocks in Western PA are not like the street stocks anywhere else. An IMCA/Wissota Street stock looks more like our pure stock with a street stock geometry, yet on a DOT racing tire. They also have specials that average $ 2500-$ 7500 bucks to win, and get plenty of cars. Here we have street stocks with twice the money in them, that race for 1/2 as much.
With that said...Most of the people I have heard who have stepped up from a street stock to these crate lates, 358 lates, steel block lates, or aluminum block lates have done so because its a similar expense, and yet they can bring more $$ home at the end of the night no matter where they finish
My question is this...since we now have 4 classes of late models, and each of those classes on average pay more to a driver than a street stock, will this put a nail in the coffin of most tracks having a decent class of street stocks, and ultimately kill that class off?
