The decline continues...

i was at my local drag strip recently and the price of admission was alot less than I thought it would have been. I was thinking at least $25 a person it was $15. And test and tune night to run my car is $30 and $20 for a guest/crew. Not bad I think. I suppose if they jack up the price no one will come out...

What I see is alot of "street" type YT videos and ""Street outlaws" it seems to be promoting carrying on on the street whereas when I was young we were told to take it to the track, street racing was frowned upon, too many innocent bystanders got hurt 35 years or more ago. I think there is still a law on the books in Pa if caught street racing they take your car and you don't get it back.
I remember drag racing on the street back in the late 60's early 70's a little differently as far as spectator injuries. None of us had cell phones that made us want to clump up and video the races. Now these morons deliberately gather like rats to video over top of each other. Compound that with higher horsepower cars and over their head owners spinning into poles,other vehicles and Darwins finest and now your pulling bodies out from under cars.