Well, in the end it's my understanding that the car counts were up this year over last year which was the first Mopar Blast at Gateway/World Wide Technology Raceway so hopefully the event will continue to grow.

I had a great time, it seemed like that other than the morning rain on Saturday everything went pretty well.

The car count might have been higher if it hadn't rain in the morning.
I know of some people who decided not to come Saturday because of it raining in the morning till about 10 am.

Rain on Saturday morning was a bummer. They just about had the track dried from the first rain when a second small shower went through and had to start over. Oh, well. Can't control the weather.

The race pits looked pretty full and the show was nice--lots of cars I had never seen before. Not huge, but a nice turnout for only the second year.

I haven't spent much time at gateway since the new owners bought it and saved it about 8 years ago--they definitely have put some serious money into it. They just hosted their first-ever nascar cup race last month, so I'm sure it was looking it's best.

Great to hear things are growing in a positive direction.

Is the swap and show car fields growing too?

From a visual standpoint, I think that the car show numbers were up simply because it looked like they were covering more area than last year.

Till I talk to someone with the car club and get an actual number, who knows.

The pits were definitely full. And the Mopar racing was COOL! What there was of it. But there weren't but maybe 40 or 50 show cars. A couple of cool ones did show up, but not much of a turn out IMHO. And the swap was even smaller with no car corral to speak of at all.

We enjoyed the racing.....until there were 20 or 30 minutes of 14 second crapmaros and rustangs with more coming. That's when we split.

It really needs to be promoted more. This is the only place that I heard of the meet. I guess the racers all knew about it and seemed to turn out. But if spectators and show and swap guys matter, then more effort sure needs to be made to let them know it's going on.

Unless you want to watch racing (and it didn't seem like a lot did as the stands were nearly empty) it is way too much money for too little Mopar experience.

It definitely needs more promotion, they want to rely on social media "Facebook" which isn't enough IMO.

The main reason that it's even here on Moparts is me posting about it.

The main reason that the event is even at WWT/Gateway is that they put it on at the same time as a points bracket race.
Otherwise WWT wants so much $$$$$ it isn't affordable to do.