[Derek.White]

[quote quote=80343]Ncmp had in the 250s yesterday Derek. 272 last week. [/quote]

Nice! Happy to have added those up wrong. Must have overlooked a few of the 2nd races for the same class when I was going through it on race monitor.

Those are incredible turnouts for a club series. I’d venture to guess that it would be an eye opening experience for the guys at Pitt Race to present them with KRA’s business model, cost structure, etc and resulting turnout. Maybe they’d think twice about being so hyper focused on rentals and see the value of building a strong club series. But that’s a bit off topic…

 

 

[Derek.White]

I would speculate it has a lot to do with the time of the year; kids are still in school. Combine that with too many series at the top level competing for a pretty small percentage of racers and you get lousy turnouts. Just look at the results of the WKA Winter Cup at Ocala two weekends ago, 67 karts total. And now I read today there’s talk of a Skusa Winter Cup, seems like trying to extract more blood from the stone to me.

On a positive note I was at New Castle yesterday for their second club race of the season, 191 entries by my count. Goes to show grass roots racing (LO206 made up about 90 of those entries between 3 classes) and affordable entry fees will still draw big numbers.

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