One thing you all have to remember about "the good old days" when you could see Sox & Martin racing Da Grump at your home track, there were only about 4 national events a year, and everyone made their money match racing. Now, there's 24 or so NHRA national events and nobody really has time or money to match race anymore, and tracks can't afford to pay them anyway. Also, in the '70's if you wanted to see Big Daddy on TV you waited 6 weeks for the last race to be shown on 'Wide World of Sports', not same day coverage like now.

I've raced at RT66 since the day it opened. I am still amazed when I run into "gearheads" around the area that don't even know the track exists.

I asked the marketing manager at the track once why they don't advertise their bracket program since they are in the middle of 8 million or so people. He flatly stated that "It was just not worth the expense to advertise".