06-29-2006, 04:27 PM
.RJ Wrote: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.most? the core group was definately not scca crossovers. corey, jack, franza, williams, warren, whitaker, giles, shultz, chad, i dont even remember the rest. scca racers may have come out to a race or 2 over the course of the season, but thats not repeat business. Thats not who you market to.
Quote: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.you really cant say that reliably. Remember, at that time SCCA IT sucked. It sucks considerably less now. Any scca racer is probably goign to go back to scca when it stops sucking as bad. Especially when racing costs are high. I think thats a big reason that the fields are smaller, because h2-h5 hasnt seen a lot of the BS changes that the west coast NASA HQ has handed down. (until next year)
Quote: There are a lot of SCCA guys that come out and fill up your Spec Miata fields,a lot? aside from hyperfest we may get 2 scca "randoms" not counting katnich and maybe another guy who run the whole season with both
Quote:There's no guarantee that the hankook deal, or the toyo deal, or any contingency will continue.the toyo deal has a several year contract