<font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=\"2\">...a 4 car waiting list.</font>
Is that a first? I have never, ever, EVER in almost 20 years been denied entry into an SCCA event due to over-subscription of a class. Ever. In fact, one of the reasons I decided to come back to SCCA Club Racing was because I got tired of vying for entry into the various HPDE organizations that filled up on the first day.
This is a watershed event for us, and it's only going to get worse as the year progresses. I think this deserves some serious discussion on reorganization of groupings for LRP. I'd rather see some smaller groups combined - despite the potential for dissimilar speeds - than risk having to tell someone they cannot participate.
Is there any chance we could reorg the groups for this weekend to let more people participate? For example, here's the current grouping counts, based on the web info:
Group 1: 25
Group 2: 33
Group 3: 29
Group 4: 13
Group 5: 25
Group 6: 17
Group 7: 47
Group 8: 38
Groups 7 and 8 are seriously heavy, while Group 4 and 6 are undersubscribed. How about we reorg the classes as follows:
- Move all FV (Group 6) into Group 4 (FA, FC, CFC, FM, FS, S2000, ASR, CSR, DSR) to make 30 total
- Move the ITB cars from Group 8 (ITS) into the new Group 6
- Move the SSC cars from Group 7 (SM and SSM) to Group 8 (ITS)
- Move the SM cars out of Group 7 (SSM) into the new Group 6
The groupings when then look like this:
Group 1: 25
Group 2: 33
Group 3: 29
Group 4: 30
Group 5: 25
Group 6: 36
Group 7: 23
Group 8: 26
It would give the room for extra ITS and ITB cars, plus any SM guys that get cut off could move enter as SSM (or vice versa) and allow those on the bubble to race.
(Frankly, I don't care if the SSM/SM guys all want to be together. The point here is not to let them all play together, it's to let EVERYONE play. I sincerely doubt they would want to turn anyone away just to prove a point...)
With the popularity of the IT and Spec Miata cars, splitting the most popular classes into multiple groups is inevitable...
Greg
