I hear ya guys. I for one would like to see more oval too. Please never forget that I was an oval racer WAAAAYYYYY before I worked at the magazine and if you look back through the old posts I was the first person to post on HT about Driver existing and that they (I didn't work there then either) were going to cover oval. When I started there I began my task of getting Driver into as much oval as we could cover and I think we've been doing more oval coverage than anyone ever did, LOL even when oval was huge (well ok maybe that part's a little over the edge but you get my point). What I've been trying to say is that there may be plenty of oval racing during the summer but I hope you can appreciate that it costs magazines a brickload of money to cover races (I don't come cheap ya know :thumbsup: ) so we have to realistically cover the larger or vital races within oval i.e. ROAR NATS, Coopers, Birds, etc. We also have to help our advertisers by covering events they are involved with while giving our readers something worth buying Driver for (an idea for a post... when did your RCCA sub expire? Mine was Oct of 2003... I had bought into the longer one for some reason). We (especially me) try to cover some other oval races for the sake of getting more oval exposure but we have to be selective of what gets covered (pssst... everyone has oval races) because of our budget. I'm not saying that anyones races aren't important (I want to make that VERY clear), what I'm saying is that we have to cover all racing (oval included) and have to come up with the best way we can to meet all of our readers needs (I've come to realize what a nearly impossible juggling act this is) within the budget of money we can afford to spend on coverage. I personally, as well as Greg and everyone else at the magazine are always open and really do love to hear about races going on but I hope you all can understand the reality that we can't cover all the races and can't be everywhere all the time, our wives would leave us for sure!!!
. Also, alot of the time we don't hear about some races until its nearly too late to get someone there. If your running a race or even just racing in one... please let us know it's happening if you think it's a big race. We watch for what we can but we can't spend our whole day on the internet... you wouldn't have anything to read. If you know of races that you feel should be covered (no matter what it is), shoot us an email and we will ALWAYS take your races into consideration. Basically we're covering what I personally know exists and have experienced in my own racing career and I haven't been everywhere so we need your help too. I'm sorry to go on and on here but I have a bad habit of taking things personally, and I feel like I'm losing you all because we can't make an all oval magazine, as much as I personally would LOVE that. I hate to hear that you've only been buying Driver because of oval coverage and don't want it unless you only get oval. I don't like that you aren't getting anything else out of what has completely become our lives and what we work very hard to put together for everyoneinto the wee hours each month. If anyone has ideas for oval stuff they would like to see covered, reviewed or otherwise, lets create a thread in our forum here for suggestions and input. A sort of suggestion box if you will. We won't be able to tell you all the outcome of each suggestion, successful or not but I think it will help us to give you all something you want to see as often as possible. What do you guys think?
