@Jon Betts wrote:
$20 Ha Ha , last race down here in the dessert cost us $116 and the racing is not very good either.
Add another $5 for tech and race director, these are issues that need to be attended to at any cost, if they are not then people will start to become pissed off with racing against people they THINK are illegal and go race somewhere where the tech issues are addressed (like CRE).
I don’t even think that our tires where check for correct compound for the class at Steamboat!!!
I think we might need to consider a bit more than 5 buck, but not more than 10.
Here’s my thinking. There are certain key individuals we should have at all races. These are Race Director, Tech Director, Timing/Scoring, and the head flagger. Each of these people should be compensated. Lets say we break it down like this:
Race Director = $200
Tech Director = $175
Timing/Scoring = $125
Head Flagger = $125
Total = $625
If we have an average of 100 entries/event and charge an extra $5 to the current entry fee we’ll come up $125 short. If we tag on $10/entry we’ll have a $375 dollar surplus. That money could be used to compensate other important functionaries on race day, such as corner workers, announcer, regsitration pre-tech and scale tech. on a 7-race schedule that’s less than 100 bucks/racer/season. To help ensure we have consistant, and well-run events I would consider that money well spent.