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Sad to read though, Shows there is still a market for our sport to grow.

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As the letter from the director of PennDOT's Bureau of Aviation pointed out...

"The frequency and the number of facilities requesting automobile racing events
appear to have created a new industry whose infrastructure is being supported
by 'airport' capital improvement funding."

Wouldn't we all like to be able to open a business and profit from it by using someone else's facilities?

I hope that the multiple individuals who enjoyed these activities will take their enthusiasm and move to the multiple, purpose built, and non-taxpayer funded drag racing facilities across the states of Pennsylvania and Ohio.

I think people in other parts of the country would kill to have the large number of drag strips operating in their states.

I believe there are 6 or 7 drag strips in Pennsylvania and a dozen or more drag strips in Ohio, so there is no shortage of places to run.

Don't forget, it was less than 2 years ago that a "burnout exhibition" at an Ohio airport changed the lives of dozens of people when one of the vehicles (with the promoter in the passenger seat) went out of control and crashed into a crowd separated from the runway by "caution tape" instead of guard rails or concrete walls that would be found at a real race track.

Sure, that didn't get the huge publicity that the multiple fatality, Tennessee Pro Mod burnout exhibition that turned into tragedy for the people who lined an unprotected stretch of highway, but these kinds of things go to show why drag racing should happen on drag strips.

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Wow, 6 or 7 drag strips in the WHOLE state of Pennsylvania. Maybe that is the reason why so many people go to the Airport races. As one of the racers at these events, I think they are more fun than going to the dragstrip. You get to see fast street cars (many are faster than some of the RACE cars I've seen at dragstrips. Also, the promoters of the Flashlight Drags have always kept the spectators very far away from the races. In fact, that is probably the downside as a spectator, but I do understand it is for safety reasons.
I'd much rather drive my car to the Greene county airport and race for a day, get 5 times more races in than I would at a dragstrip.
It is much better than trailering my car to the racetrack because it is much further away, and sitting around for the whole day and maybe getting to go down the track 2 or 3 times.

As far as you saying "Wouldn't we all like to be able to open a business and profit from it by using someone else's facilities?", this happens all the time. Do you realize how many businesses in this country rent the facility that they are operating out of? Just look at any shopping mall. Maybe even the company that you work for doesn't even own the building it operates out of.