Our CSC is highly sucessful when compared to ANY regional series in the country. We may well have THE most sucessful series in the country when compared to our population base. PKC has over well over 10,000,000 people in their population base. We have at best 1,500,000 in roughly the same geographical area. We are drawing around 50-60 racers in the classes PKC runs. If PKC was as sucessful in drawing from their base as we are from ours, they should have almost 350 entries at every race!
AS many have pointed out, PKC is very sucessful becasue they have no competition. What other regional series in SoCal even offers shifter classes? Region 7 doesn’t want them, they concentrate on junior classes.
On the surface racing on Saturday is attractive. However, all its does is push the practice day to Friday. Sorry guys, that’s a problem for me. While I have a kart related business, I need to work on Friday. I too am no fan of driving over Vail pass at 2:00am, ( a couple of years ago I found one of our racers on his side up there) but I need to work on Friday. A better solution is fewer classes so the day wraps up quicker.
PKC runs national rules? Outside of the PKC series, who runs their spec Honda rules? Absolutely no one. Our spec Honda rules are run in local/regional series from Florida to Washington and many, many places in between. Their ICC rules are the international rules put out by the CIK ( Cartel of Italian Kart manufacturers). Their TaG rules are basically TaG USA rules, same as ours. I would argue that we have a better set of national rules than they do.
But back to the question on 2007.
We need fewer classes. We all know the arguments here. Lets get’er done.
My suggestion.
ICC(385) and built Moto (375) combined.
Spec Honda shifter lite (375)
Spec Honda shifter heavy (410)
Tag Master
Tag Senior
Tag Junior
80 Junior shifter (our K2)
MiniMax
Kid Karts
I would consider one more class to be between the kid karts and MinMax as a developmental class. In the long term, I would eliminate the K2 class.
The series needs to have fewer races. 5 races max. Once at each of the traditional and CSC supporting tracks, one temperary like Greeley or Steamboat. NO drops. 5 races is not too many to ask a racer to do if they want to compete for a regional championship.
On the organizational side of it I would like to see the same crew at each race. I have enjoyed having the same tech director at each race. It makes for consistant and fair tech. Each of the promotors could offer one or two persons for each race. For example, GJMS provided the race director, IMI provided the tech director, The Track provided the grid martial, Action Karting provided the head flager. This way we have the same consistant crew at each race. Instead of paying for 5 guys for one race, a promoter would pay for 1 guy for 5 races. The cost is the same, just spreads it out a bit over the season.