It scares me too, and I don't yet have a National ticket. But I think
I have some idea of why the numbers in this class have fallen so much
more precipitously than some other classes. F500 is truly (no offense
meant, so if you take some keep it to yourself) a bottom feeders class.
By that I mean that, due to the low cost of competing, many of the
competitors are very budget limited. If the cost of racing goes up
10%, a much larger proportion of F500 drivers will drop out or reduce
race entries compared to, say, FA drivers. I know that's very true in
my case; after a long "discussion" with Medicare and my health
insurance company, we now owe a 4 digit balance for some physical
therapy my wife needed. Due to that unexpected expense, I have scaled
back my planned season and will not be able to get my National in time
to add to our numbers this season. I WILL have a National going into
next season (unless the car breaks catastrophically), so if we manage
to make it through this season, I'll add my participation. If we
don't, well, I'll just race Regional and continue to flag the
Nationals.
Gene near Seattle
On Apr 15, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Jay Novak wrote:
It just scares me to see
our National entry numbers drop by about 60% from 5 years ago to last
year &
now down another 20% this year. For the life of me I can't see why our
numbers have fallen so quickly.
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