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Rightly or wrongly, track days are perceived by actual competitors as taking new venues away from the sport. Countless places that have been looked at as potential new sprint venues are found to have already committed to "trackdays" at lower noise limits than MSA-authorised speed events and refuse to risk upsetting locals by even trying a sprint.
The risk of body contact puts off most of those who dont want to race - its not the basic running costs, as there's not much to chose between some race and speed events in value for money/track time? (and single venue tarmac rallies beat both on that score and there's a passenger to share costs). Most of us cant see the point of trackdays that stop you if you take it to the limit but I guess its the inevitable result of the nanny state on the roads these days - and the result of FIA homologation regs that have produced Imprezzas, Evos etc in large numbers for the public.
Make no mistake, however, track days are slowly killing grass roots "fast" motorsport with the venue issue. That has massive implcations in the longer term.
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