Here are the UNOFFICIAL preliminary data for 2006 up to early July...
SM 1104 SRF 956 FV 374 FA 307 EP 297
FC 282 GT-1 275 FM 274 FF 255 FP 236
T-2 236 DSR 233 SSC 200 AS 190 T-1 179
GP 168 SSB 167 GT-2 162 CSR 157 HP 142
GT-3 140 S2 128 F500 124 GT-L 106 T-3 96
I got these data by downloading all the results sheets for the 2006 season from
the SCCA's results pages (go to their website and click on discussion, then
club racing, then results...). I entered the numbers into a spreadsheet for all
50-ish Nationals to date and let it total the results. I no doubt made errors,
but they should be proportional to the numbers of cars in a class, so they
won't make much difference to a particular class' relative ranking. I.E., I
didn't make enough F500 errors to lift your class to 10th from 23th... ;)
It would seem that waiting to see if other have registered before committing to
a race would not be good for F500 numbers... ;)
Stan
Jay Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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
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