There has been a lot of talk on the sports racer site involving the sam issues,and Stan and Sean Maisey have compiled some interesting info,among which is that S-M has quite a few newbies starting out in racing ,I believe that many will lose interest after a while and want to move to purpose built race cars(sports racers,formulae,GT1 etc.)owever this may take a couple years,while I don't understand the waning popularity of F-500(fast realitively inexpensive racing) one thing I suspect is that a lot of these cars are uncomfortable(read that,tight) and are not very pretty.If a potential driver see's an indy car or champ car they don't reconcile them with F-5 very well, keeping in mind that to the uninitiated even a Formula One car looks like a giant Go Kart,the F-500 cars are extremely quick per dollar, the mixing of formula ford ,vee and F-5 will actually help participation mumbers in the future Imo and ff will go to the wayside.Right now with all classes numbers hurting due to the economy,gas prices etc. time will tell. Dave Craddock
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [F500] racing car counts Wow, I just stumbled onto this thread via my seldom used Comcast mail. I think my spam filter is killing a lot of messages... This is serious stuff and we better get off our collective fannies and find a way to hit the track. Jay is right, we need the dialogue to continue and focus on solutions. I don't have any bright ideas right now, but I'm scared into the thinking mode. That being said, there is a high probability that we'll be a DNS at RA this weekend (trailer issue). We will make as many of the remaining races as possible. Lets keep this thread alive. And yes, Jeremy, get your car out of the shop. Charlie -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Jay Novak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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! ***
