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The problem is that every kid thought that he was going to get rich opening up another shop or starting another company catering to sport compacts. This made for way too many companies, too many gimmicky mods that do nothing, and a whole lot of empty wallets. Hot Rod also mentioned that there is no grassroots in Sport compact racing. There are the 25 or so fast Pro cars that run on an annual budget bigger than the GDP of most small countries and after that, you'd be lucky to find more than a handfull of 11 or 12 second cars at these events.
I don't think that rice is going away, but I think that the height of it's popularity has passed-it won't be as mainstream, which is probably a good thing-weed out the idiots and let the serious sport compact crowd show us what they've got.