Well said, but "good enough for us" isn't going to grow the sport.
$35 OMA Card membership; No gate fee for RACERS (refund racer on his way out of the track to prevent liars from getting free entry) $30 first class. $10 each additional class.
Need manufacture sponsors though. Transworld just had an article about how racing was dead out west. Everyone was just practicing. So they started thw TWMX race series. They have some HUGE sponsors, but transworld magazine is definitely a bonus for manufacturers to get on board with it's popularity. So OMA is probably limited there, but the more sponsors the more you can give back to the riders and entice them to race.
From MAY 2014 Transworld mag: "in an effort to maintain a smooth-running program for so many racers with nice, long motos, we incorporated a mojor change for 2014: two tracks!. . . we moved the beginner classes to the less-challenging courses and kept novice through pro on the main circuit. The result of our concurrent moto strategy has been safer racing for the introductory classes, an increase in beginner participation (can you say, growing the sport?), and a race day program that lets you get home in time to wash your bike and mow the lawn." Not sure how you can entice people to race, but it can be done....
As for practice, Allow X amount of riders on the track, everyone enters and leave at same spot. Track worker has counter, when counter reaches that X number, allow no more to enter until a rider exits. Keep that same X amount of riders on the track or less at all times. When they are grouped not everyone stays out for the full 15 minutes. This would allow people to still go out and come in whenever they want, giving the practice an open feel with slight restriction. And allows riders who want to stay out for an extended period (say the guys training for longer motos for Loretta's) to do so as well.
Somehow Delta Raceway provides Rocky mtn atv $10 gift cards (race gas program) even on practice days.....not sure how they got that deal, but that would be INSANELY awesome if we could figure out how to do that in OMA.