I pointed this out about three weeks ago. A road race, at the minimum costs
about $850.00, + + +. and that's just to be a tail marker. To many of us,
its not beyond our desire, its a simple matter of run one or two SCCA road
races or a whole season of Solo and / or something else. I don't object to
MC engines or other changes to the class as legal alternates however, I
don't feel they will improve participation unless they attract racers from
other more expensive classes. (and I don't think that will happen)
Richard L. Hensley, P.E.
Hensley Engine & Machine
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Subject: Re: [F500] Numbers decrease
Exactly, not so much the gas but the entry fees. The reason that we
autocross is that I can justify $15 to 25 plus a couple gallons of gas and
a Sunday. To road race with a $300 entry and associated costs is still
beyond my desire to compete.
Allen
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I think Gene's post has correctly identified the problem with our
lowering
participation numbers.
Like any social or other group, generally a groups make up is structured
with
the "haves" and "have not's". Not meaning to be derogatory to any one
sector,
the FA guys have a very low percentage of "have not's" in that group.
F500
has the just the opposite make up. Among my golfing buddies it's the
same
with skill level.
There are however two factors consistent with the "what happened to the
F500
class number" situation. (1) about 2002/2003 we started losing numbers
and
(2) about the same period different sectors of the economy started
"tightening
up".
In my opinion...F500 would have a resurgence of car owners back racing if
the
price of gas was again $1.70 a gallon and entry fees were $50 to $75
less.
Louie Schultz
Philly Region, SCCA
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> 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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