Yes, but numbers have fallen over the last few years. There are big tuner cars, but there are also a lot of private entries.
The biggest issue with entries seems to be, and this happens at many events. People who who blab about making big numbers on a dyno, or about how fast their car could be....are scared to enter in case they get proved wrong.

If people dont enter then it's kind of hard to listen to them moan about people who have entered.
The solution is simple, enter and show them how it's done. There is only a very small handful of cars capable of winning the event and always will be. So really...would you be going with the intention of winning ? hardly.

So just go and enjoy the day for what it is. A day where you can get to race and enjoy your own car, and fuck everyone else.

This largely seems to be a Ford thing. I was a spectator at Central Ford day a few years ago when I came over with a friend who was racing at Santa Pod.
It had the biggest crowds I'd seen at Santa Pod, more cars than any event I'd been to. Yet the queue for the strip the entire day was about 2 minutes. WTF ??
Seemed pointless holding the event at a drag strip when nobody was racing.

I actually stopped going to big events there myself, as the last one I did I had to queue for 2 hours to get a single run !
And that was over an entire weekend, Saturday from morning til 9pm then again Sunday. I actually got fucked off queuing on the Sunday and gave up as I'd spent the entire day and a half there doing nothing but queue to race.

I am with you on big tuner cars and entries. But if the little guys dont even try and enter, it's never going to change.
It's also why Trevor has started a RWYB on the Saturday, with the quickest guys getting a free entry to TOTB the next day.
To encourage people to actually just have a go.

As for 100k...I doubt it even comes close on some cars lol