Ron, I just recently subscribed to your magazine and am also only in my second year of F500 racing. First, I want to congratulate you on your magazine, especially the photography. The pictures are outstanding, but I don't see many F500 in the magazine. Perhaps if you are going to the Glen this weekend you could do some interviews and take a few pictures for a brief article for an upcoming issue. It may not be of primary interest to your general audience, but the F500 community could use the articles or reprints for publicity for the cause. Especially if you gave us reprint rights for such an article. Tx Eric Dean
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Howden Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [F500] racing car counts Guys...please consider FormulaCar Magazine in your discussions on this subject. If we can do anything, just drop me a line. I'm all for helping to cover a Challenge-style Regional program like the FFords EWC and would devote some editorial space to it. I know that the guys in the Central and Great Lakes Divisions and looking to organize a formula car restricted Regional in 2007...F500 needs to be there with 20 cars. Take care, Rob Howden Publisher / Editor-in Chief - ekartingnews.com - Super Kart Illustrated - eformulacarnews.com - FormulaCar Magazine Ph: 519-624-2003 Fax: 519-624-0053 P.O. Box 580 Cambridge, Ontario Canada N1R 5W1 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:47 PM 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! *** _______________________________________________ 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! ***
