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Post by stealth on Mar 1, 2015 9:43:55 GMT 12
Just wondering what everyone thinks is a good number of classes to run per meeting? Both from a drivers perspective and/or spectator.
At my local track seems to be only 5 classes per meeting these days, from a drivers perspective I'm not a fan of this as there are less races to repair your car between, and also ultimately means less meetings for us.
In years gone by it was always a minimum of 6 classes which seemed to work nicely.
What do the rest of you think?
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Post by Murray Guy (Grandad) on Mar 1, 2015 10:38:21 GMT 12
From a spectators perspective the number of classes is not important.
The efficient running of the meeting, the quality and entertainment value of the racing.
As a competitor, certainly helps have a reasonable time frame between outings, if old to get your breath back, if a flag chaser to make the changes.
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Post by meeaneemic on Mar 1, 2015 14:38:15 GMT 12
6 classes or 18 races is a good number.
for families with kids the meeting should run to approx 10pm{7pm start}
3 hours is long enough to sit your bum on the hard seats
The hardcore fan would sit there for 5 hours if you let them but it is the casual fan that makes meetings profitable and if people have to leave early because of tired kids or a fed up Wife/husband then they won't be back.
But if you can keep them entertained for 3 hours they will come again.
A Promoter must never lose sight of the fact Speedway is entertainment first and a Sport second.
My reasoning for that is the Sport cannot survive if it isn't entertaining.
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Post by midway on Mar 2, 2015 8:36:30 GMT 12
From a spectators perspective the number of classes is not important. The efficient running of the meeting, the quality and entertainment value of the racing. As a competitor, certainly helps have a reasonable time frame between outings, if old to get your breath back, if a flag chaser to make the changes. Dont think many punters would like kiddie stocks and production saloons as from a one eyed perspective in quality entertainment value as classes running all night long or is it having a perspicacious view. |
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Post by spdwayorthehway on Mar 2, 2015 9:48:51 GMT 12
5 is enough if there are good numbers in each class.
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Post by modliteracing on Mar 3, 2015 23:37:38 GMT 12
5 is enough if there are good numbers in each class. Totally agree you could run as many classes as you like but if each class has under 12 cars y bother? theres nothing worse than attending a track and the ministocks are the class you go away talking about just becase the racing was closer as numbers are always great. promoters need to start getting strict on class numbers as have attended a few meetings recently where i thought the travel and $ for entry was a waste. im sure im not the only one who this happens to. here in palmy we are lucky with having 5 tracks within 2hours so comfortable travel there and back in a day but sometimes its better to just not go on the road. |
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Post by teamkaos on Mar 5, 2015 12:15:48 GMT 12
5 is enough if there are good numbers in each class. Totally agree you could run as many classes as you like but if each class has under 12 cars y bother? theres nothing worse than attending a track and the ministocks are the class you go away talking about just becase the racing was closer as numbers are always great. promoters need to start getting strict on class numbers as have attended a few meetings recently where i thought the travel and $ for entry was a waste. im sure im not the only one who this happens to. here in palmy we are lucky with having 5 tracks within 2hours so comfortable travel there and back in a day but sometimes its better to just not go on the road. This has to be the dumbest comment ive read on here for a long long time. So what happens to all those guys with racecars in classes with less than 12 cars? They have put the time and money into their racecar and deserve to have a run just as much as any other mug out there. And with a class struggling for numbers how exactly are you supposed to grow the class and get more numbers if the class never gets run?? Waikarka are classic for this attitude, if you havnt got the numbers you dont get run, but how are you suppossed to get the numbers in a class up if they dont get run? |
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Post by BarryB on Mar 5, 2015 12:24:20 GMT 12
It varies from class to class too. 12 Super Saloons or 12 Modifieds would be a goodly amount on most tracks on a regular Saturday night, 12 Ministocks or 12 Stockcars not so much. You can't operate of a blanket number.
Barry B
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Post by kiatoa on Mar 5, 2015 19:05:37 GMT 12
1..... friday night at the Superstock team champs
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Post by modliteracing on Mar 5, 2015 20:16:05 GMT 12
im sorry you thought my comment was "dumb" as you said teamkaos.
we are all welcome to our own opinion. as you are to yours saying mines dumb.
as for not enough drivers in a class at particular tracks that goes back to discussions in other threads around too many classes and thining out driver numbers as too much choice.
it was just one opinion from one person.
the public pay to see a show and well put barry different classes require different quantities to put on a show but i believe any class with under 10-12 cars is not a good show for public to be paying $15-100 to get through gate.
thats my opinion.
i would like to apologise as well as my post may have been a little off topic in first place. around how many classes not cars.
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Post by teamkaos on Mar 6, 2015 6:47:55 GMT 12
Still havnt answered the question? Where are these guys supposed to run if they get dropped from the program?
And how do you get numbers up in a class if they dont get run?
And how about the Springs, they split their classes into groups so there is only 10 - 12 cars on track for the heats.
Besides the Powri series when there is more cars. Dosnt really take anything away from the show at all.
Teams racing, only 8 cars on track?
Some of the best racing has been during pole shuffles where there is only 2 cars on track, how do you explain that?
Having x20 production saloons or Ministocks on track isnt going to make the racing any better in my opinion.
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