A big "Thank You" to Stan for compiling participation data. Let's first...find out WHY F500's are less appealing to the masses.
SM. has way more mass appeal and will naturally attract more attention and interest from people newly exposed to racing. >From a dollar perspective, if you want to be halfway competitive, my past "prod" (always chasing rules changes) and F500 experience has me firmly believing the only thing cheaper then F500 racing is RC racing. Our participation problem/s may not lie with the car but with people. If it's the latter, then don't "fix" the car you "sell it, sell it, sell, it". A free atta boy to first one to guess who used that phrase! Lou Schultz Philly Region ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Novak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 8:16 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! ***
