John250, we at COCR have been complaining about that very thing. There is soo many tracks out there now that with open practice and races on top the same dates. That the race gate turnout has suffered for years. we suffer from the very same thing and would like to work together with the other tracks. The problem is that with so many tracks and only so many weekends, you can't help it. We did not want to overlap DMC but the Thrills is next weekend. We changed the track and think it should be ridden to correct any flaws, and give us enough time to fix them before were racing. Having practice Saturday was an option. BC is having a open practice/pit bike race Saturday and some of us members would've had to take off work Friday to make it happen. It was either Sunday or nothing. The district did have a 200 mile rule years ago, but that was changed to like 50 or something ridiculus several years ago. In order to give the number of promoters fair opportunity to schedule enough events to stay alive. Plus the district gets sanctioning fees for every race scheduled. So the 50 mile rule makes them more money. If you've never been to the sanctioning meeting in November, don't go it sucks. everybody has a number of events and only so many dates. I do believe that we the motocross community should be able to come up with a solution. Less events per track per year. But when it is your weekend, your track would get everyone. Big 300 plus turnouts for all the tracks. If the tracks got those turnouts for fewer events they would make more money due to less expense. But if nobody comes to one of your only two scheduled races your sunk for the year. If we, as a whole go to different races together. The tracks would come around better, better racing, totally better events. A dream aye? I just wanted to explain to you why we scheduled on top of DMC. And agree with your point. We talk about it every year but never get it solved. I think COCR as a whole is willing to give and take a little to try and make this work. In this situation we just ran out of time and had to schedule on top of them. Sorry again to all of those at DMC. I hope our practice does'nt hurt your turn out too much. At the same time, we need a good turnout also. Sorry so long winded. I get that from my Mothers people. Ha Ha