Kyle, here's a better question. Why would a club, ICSCC or otherwise, want to promote and operate an endurance race?
I mean, it can't be simply to please a dozen, or so teams. Although profit shouldn't be the motivation, at least breaking even should. So what is the motivation now? Tradition? The fact that CSCC has held so many? It's certainly not a mandate in the bylaws to put up the $$ to provide the facility and safety functions with the hopes that there will be enough interest to provide some recompense with entries.
I have watched as Cascade attempts to cater to nearly every whim of their still existing customers. Tow every broken toy in because after 30 years it became a safety issue, so now they all get 'overs' like the any slot car track, they've allowed semi-professional fueling equipment for certain classes, switch around the classings, and class structures, gone from 6hr to 8hr, to 12hr, to 10hr, and back around again. Still no consistency of success since... well, WHEN?
Please don't misunderstand me. I have enjoyed being on turns or providing Safety operations for over two decades. The team effort on both sides of the fence, the BBQs/food fests, the excitement of nocturnal race operations... everybody together for the endeavor. If I didn't get a kick out if it, I would have vacated long, long ago. But, I've also watch it change. The texture, and make up is different than it was. And these things, well before Chumpcar ever came into existence.
It truly is time that the membership needs to answer the questions of viability, motivation, and continuation of their endurance races. Not just the Board, but the general members. The people that are suppose to be involved in, and operating the event.
Of course there are drivers out there that want to participate. There always have been and there probably always will be. But without serious entry numbers, as would any 'commercial' organization, it must be consider, and the question needs to be asked. What's the point? When did the horse die?
What elements of change from the days that the entries averaged in the 30's and 40's, not barely 20?