06-29-2006, 04:01 PM
Evan Wrote:perhaps, but scca crossovers are almost definately not the core constituents of a nasa field, you have very few scca racers who run a full nasa season, and thus it is not who nasa is marketing to. I dont blame them. You cant make large business decisions based on a few racers. Remember, the toyo deal is for all of nasa.
Entry fees are entry fees....
HC's first year, most of the racers were "scca crossover" types, with a few who had been DE drivers that got their race license to run with HC.
The DE drivers moving up have increased in count, and the "scca crossovers" have declined to just about 0 now. If NASA had been able ot keep these drivers, the HC fields could have been twice as large as they were in 2002. There are a lot of SCCA guys that come out and fill up your Spec Miata fields, there's no reason that HC cant do the same. NASA-VA runs at VIR, CMP, Lowes, Summit... plenty of different tracks to draw some additional entries in.
Quote:and like i said earlier, there was no gaurantee that the kuhmo deal would have continued.
There's no guarantee that the hankook deal, or the toyo deal, or any contingency will continue.
Quote:thats not a good comparison. ECHC is 5 classes, SM is 1. I dont think ECHC has ever consistently had 12 cars in a single class like we do in SM.
Separate classes or not, the series still has the potential to draw racers in. I built my integra b/c I wanted to race in honda challenge, and I'm sure it was a big draw for many other racers - certainly for the H1-H2 racers.
Quote:the thinning of the classes started before most of the "B.S." (especially in h4, where there has been minimal rules creep) so I dont really take nasa as the lone reason for that
True, since the h2-h5 has seen the least amount of changes (although I wish they'd leave the damn weights alone), and we are still not on a spec tire.... so not as much has changed for most of the field.