The snowmobile racing is a struggle out west. You have to have it in your blood to want to go pound the crap out of your body and your sled when your other option is to go pound the powder on your Mountain Sled. As Plumnuts said, the days of support is gone! Back in the day you could at least make enough money to cover the weekend costs. I have two kids into MX and SX. MX is a fraction of the cost and the number of racers and the level of compatition compaired to SX is much, much better!
The next hurdle is the cost to host a race. Unless the local community hosting the race comes together and supports it, it's cost prohibative. ISR Insurance to host a race = $3K, groomer, fuel, transport costs, awards, another $2K or more. This is a tough pill to swallow when you hope to get maybe 50 or 75 entries at a race. There was a time when there was 300 plus entries.
Changes will have to be made to keep our snocross racing alive - hopefully we can unite and pull this thing out of the toilet. Paul Woodie, Woodies Racing, has been the main pole in our little tent over the past couple years and has stepped up to make races happen. But the rest of us need to step up big time if we want a circuit for our kids to race. As for MWR, well, I can't speak for them, but there are a few of us dads that have hopes of getting this program off of life support - with or without MWR.