{"id":260,"date":"2021-04-01T00:06:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T06:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldhippie.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2021-04-01T00:06:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T06:06:36","slug":"support-your-local-drag-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/01\/support-your-local-drag-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Your Local Drag Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oldhippie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/54517458_656782368107917_8333955292777676800_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/54517458_656782368107917_8333955292777676800_n.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/54517458_656782368107917_8333955292777676800_n-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just three of the tracks I\u2019ve raced at often, which are going away. Many others are on real shaky ground. Now with Diesel Fuel, gasoline and Race Gas fixing to double under Sleepy Joe \u2013 expect fewer Racers traveling to National Events. I was just at the season opener in Bradenton, Florida \u2013 and I saw the fewest NSS Racers ever. I paid as much as $3.60 a gallon for diesel driving there \u2013 spending close to $2,000 in fuel for motorhome pulling stacker. I imagine that is the reason for so dew Racers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tracks are on the brink of failing. Fewer Racers, more asshole hating non-electric cars, higher cost of fuel, and subdivisions of Snowflakes being built by tracks \u2013 then wanting a curfew on the track plus mufflers on the cars. The testosterone levels are dropping on today\u2019s toothpick armed, pencil neck excuses of men with manbuns in skinny jeans. They can\u2019t start a nut on a bolt \u2013 yet race a fast car. For tracks to survive, we need to show them support by showing up to race or watch \u2013 and get the 10% of boys who want to identify as men interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just three of the tracks I\u2019ve raced at often, which are going away. Many others&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}