I still like Rob's idea of a east/west/north/south/red car/blue car/ purple car challenge series or something to draw out more cars.
At least somehow knowing more cars will be at a race will get me there. Right now, I often will wait until the end of the registration period to decide to sign up because I want to see that another car will be there. Running fast laps around vees is not very fun and I just use them as expensive test sessions. I doubt we will ever get everyone or even some to somehow post here that they are going to any particular race, but it would help. Having more SCCA regions step into the 1990's and post an online car count would help, too. jim ----- Original Message ---- From: Jay Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:16:22 PM Subject: [F500] racing car counts I think that several classes are in trouble with car counts. Obviously costs have increased a lot in the last few years & certainly this is a big factor. However it is interesting to note that Spec Miata races are seeing anywhere from 25 to 40 car fields at many races. These cars probably cost about the same to run as an F500. I suspect that additional restraints on car counts has to do with prep time as well as the $$ to race. In F500 we need to do everything we can to help car counts and to improve our cars from a cost perspective. With the SCCA increasing classes & then limiting the Runoffs to the top 24 classes thing will get tougher in the future for classes with marginal counts. In the last 4 years out car counts have gone from about 7.5/race to about 5.5/race. This is not a good trend. Let's start a dialog on how we can improve F500 car counts. Thanks ... Jay Novak _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! *** _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
