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We have developed a core group of competitors that show up every week however, there are also new faces almost every week, which I think shows that interest and participation will continue to grow. SB: Every session has gone official this season.

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It was just a matter of getting the word out to get ALL of those drivers to start showing up regularly. Also, the drivers we were getting were always a different crowd: we didn’t see too many repeat drivers that season, which told me that there was interest in the car. When we first started promoting in the latter half of Season 4, 2011, we were getting handfuls more cars showing up, but I think Scott only had one of his Friday night races go official-barely (we need 8 cars to make an official race). MB: It goes up and down from week to week, but yeah, we are seeing a slow but steady increase in car counts. It started as “North American Prime Time” on Thursday nights, but we re-coined it V8SC Americas this season and took it a little more seriously, once it looked like it was really starting to take off.ĮF: With two slots (02:45 GMT Friday and Saturday/ 9:45 PM EST Thursday and Friday) going official each week, and even some splits happening, it looks like “V8 Supercars Americas” is here to stay: are you seeing an upswing in interest and attendance this season? SB: The interest was out there, it just took a little organization and promotion. After telling him about the DST issue, he came up with the idea for promoting a new timeslot for Western-hemisphere V8SC racing, and between the two of us it kind of snowballed from there to what we have now. I was still showing up just for the sake of showing up, and then one Thursday night Scott jumped on with me and was blown away by the fact we were the only two cars in the garage. But then the switch from Daylight Savings Time kicked the iRacing server schedules off by an hour, and through sheer misfortune our regular time took place just as everyone was either coming home from work, sitting down to dinner, or putting the kids to bed: the official American V8 races evaporated overnight. Last summer when I first started racing the Falcon, a band of Americans and a few Europeans had organized their own timeslot for Thursday nights, and things were going pretty well. Problem is, on this side of the world those timeslots ended up being something like 3:00 AM on Monday mornings. The Aussies had organized themselves to all meet once a week for one or two races in certain timeslots-to get the best chance of races going official. MB: The V8SC is one of those cars that (I hate to use the term “unpopular”) really struggles to get a turnout on a regular basis-right up there with the Sprint Car and the classic Lotus.

Practicing what he preaches, Budzien races in the V8 events promoted on his rear spoiler.

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World of Outlaws CARQUEST Auto Parts Sprint Car Series.

Force Dynamics Dallara iRacing Grand Prix Championship.

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