The attendance was down quite a bit at the NHIS enduro this year and I would like to pick some brains. This event started as a three hour for a few years and went to 4 hours in 2005. We had been drawing 40 to 45 cars. At the drivers meeting in 05 we asked if people wanted to go to 6 hours all but 2 people at the meeting voted to go to 6 hours. This year the event at 6 hours drew something like 22 cars. The question is why.

One school of thought is that at 6 hours the local teams doing it as a lark were intimidated and the serious enduro guys did not take a six-hour serious enough to trek up to New Hampshire. This group believes the best course of action for the region is to go back to 4 hours.

The other group thinks this year was not a fair test. Entries are down at all events and this event was run at the peak of the fuel price spike and that in another year the environment could change enough to make the 6-hour popular.

So enduro guys what do you think.