Road racing doesn't seem to mind
>with their championhips being held in Atlanta for years and now not being
>very far from Evansville in Ohio.
>
I think something's slipped your mind. The national road racing runoffs
attract drivers from across the country because there's a travel fund that
is portioned out to drivers. Those who travel farthest get the most travel
money, if they qualify...
Since Solo II's only 'qualifying' requirement is to run a Tour or
Divisional, and we have so many entering, I doubt something like this would
work.
Move Nationals east of Topeka, even by a day's drive, would most likely
chop off a lot of the western members of the Club, not the friendliest thing
to do.
--Pat Kelly
>Ben
>
>On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:17:39 -0400 "Rick Cone" <rickcone@bellsouth.net>
>writes:
>> I am afraid Rex, it may be you joking, statistically anyway.
>>
>> According to the most recent US Census...
>> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cenpop/cntpop2k.html
>>
>> The median center of population in the US is........... Evansville,
>> IN! Ok
>> not quite but it is the next big city to the center.
>>
>> Due south of Evansville.... BIRMINGHAM AL....
>>
>> So using your numbers... If the offices were moved to the middle of
>> the
>> country, in terms of population) then you would have to drive 1852
>> (your
>> number) + 342 (yahoo maps, Evansville to Topeka) for a total of 2194
>> miles.
>> So it would be another 100 miles to get to Birmingham.
>>
>> IF we move the location of the Solo2 Nationals, we should do it
>> based upon
>> the geographic center of our membership. And I would contend if you
>> compared the geographics of the SCCA and the US Population as a
>> whole the
>> center would move south, and east. Why? It would move south
>> because we are
>> able to race close to year round, and our member to population rates
>> will be
>> higher. (How many SCCA members are there that live/work in
>> Manhattan? I
>> would bet that Atlanta being a city 1/5 the size has more members
>> then New
>> York City... see what I mean? To further illustrate, 6 of the
>> SCCA's area
>> is East of the Mississippi.
>>
>> You could make a point that those of us east of Topeka, subsidizes
>> those
>> coming from the west.
>>
>> I'm all for Solo 2 Nationals being centrally located, or in the
>> central part
>> of the country. But it should be based on where the membership
>> lives.
>
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