06-29-2006, 06:52 PM
Evan Wrote: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.
You're right, the SCCA guys who came out only did 2 or 3 weekends a year, at most - they're looking to fill the schedule, I suppose. You say it is not important, but it happens all the time with spec miata - how many "scca guys" come out to the nasa events at summit? at VIR? Its not worth ignoring in the least.
If nothing else, it grows the fields, which the organization can use to leverage better contingency from tires, the race site, kingrat, etc, etc... and if the series is doing a good job, and these "scraps" come do a race or two they may stick around and not go back to SCCA. Its much easier to get that customer and retain them, than to convince people to come up through DE"s and spend $15-$40k on a racecar, truck, trailer, etc... is it not repeat business if they dont run the whole year? What if they do 2 events a year, every year? Sounds repeat to me... there were quite a few of those guys, now they are gone.
Quote:the toyo deal has a several year contract
So did the Job me and Gerald had last year :lol: <pot shot>
Quote:eh....Im not convinced HC is one of the most popular classes, ...you look at numbers from a lot of the other series and they are right up there if not past the HC numbers
Thats why I said "one of" not "the most". The counts are similar to AI and SM, and there isnt anything else out there with as many entries as those 3.
Quote: Just like SCCA pro inking spec tire deals, we probably should have seen it coming.
Yeah, but this is club racing. Spec tires work when the cars are spec and everyone uses the same size... not so much for a series when there are a dozen different chassis tire sizes being used.
Quote:almost all that rules dicking was with h1, but h2-h5 have seen the biggest attrition, and h1 is the strongest class.
H1 has had the most attrition since last year as well... at least in terms of people consistently showing up to race.