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There are 5-7 guys (and girl!) who plan running PPMS as much as possible who arent ready yet. Granted 10-14 cars isnt anything to celebrate but i dont think they will average 4 cars starting every feature. No matter how much PPMS pays there is a large group of drivers who are scared of the place or feel it is too tough on motors. Trust me, going on 10 years of the ELM I know. If I moved the ELM to Lernerville Id get 70+ cars. But it is what it is.

The pro stocks are now mirroring the open emods around 2013. Theres more support for hobby/pure stocks due to cost. Same as what happened with 2 barrel/econo mods. I actually predicted this 5 years ago. Youre going to have a very dedicated, skilled group of 35-40 pro stocks supporting the 6 big Penn Ohio shows on average. I believe they have over 70 members eligible for the weekly points fund similar to Rush. That is why POPS reduced their series to 6 big shows and weekly points structure as they didnt want to hurt weekly car counts as there are less of them around.

Up north there are a ton more pro stocks racing. Sharon will have close to 30 cars every week. Stateline had 4 heats on Saturday. Out this way Lernerville will get 17-20 weekly. Latrobe and PPMS will have 10-12 most weeks. Mercer and the Knob (previously) and Thunder Mountain (2021)dropped them weekly. Hidden Valley only had 4. I think the Bird had 14. I still havent figured out why there are so many more up north.

Sad fact is- promoters need to figure out how to address why 4 cylinder and pure stocks cars generally have the largest car count at a lot of local tracks. Obviously people want to race but cant afford whats going on with the traditional front gate classes.

Yeah it's hard on big cubic inch engine trying to turn 8500 rpm while hardly lifting that's why PPMS is hard on engines .  What happened to a cubic inch limit ?  Say 360 or 400 have a specific head only turn it 7500- 7800 engines would last longer than a 430 in a street stock .   The bigger the engines got in this class the worse the actual racing has been IMO .