As I walked the pits at Highland Rim Speedway, I noticed that there were lots of racers grouped up in packs. Race packs, like football or baseball teams at a regional playoff....
I learned that there were clans of sorts. Each clan worked to defeat the rival clans and there were their followers in special sections of the stands, just like they were grouped in the pits.
There were lots of open wheeled trailers, and that speaks to the grass roots aspect of this track. I sometimes fantasize that a team could do their home work and build a Nascar Sprint Series stock car, show up at a Martinsville or Bristol with an open trailer, and qualify for the race. Then I wake up.... It'll never happen.
This type of racing is cheap, fun, and definitely exciting, for all who come. And isn't that the way it should be. It keeps these people coming back time after time. week after week. And it makes for a successful race track.