> I will have to disagree with the belief that our region doesn't have
> serious autocrossers. I feel that our region is regarded as having too
> many serious autocroossers and there are a lot of non-serious
> autocrossers who are intimidated by our region. The reason I feel this
> way is because I've tried to get other people from other clubs to come
> out and participate and they all told me it's too tough to be
> competitive. The reason I joined the SCCA was to get better as a driver
> by competing against the drivers in the area who I knew took the sport
> seriously. How many National or Pro champions came from our local NASA
> group? I'm not knocking the NASA group but in my opinion that was a more
> laid back and not so serious, let's have some fun group. I believe that
> the other problem is lack of time on the course, we typically only get 3
> runs whereas at NASA you usually got 4 runs plus fun runs.
>
We are not talking about NASA here. They haven't even run any autox events
this year.
The attendance is not the only think that is declining at SFR. How many
2005 National champions actually run SFR events regularly? Just one!!!
None in slush series!
--Navid
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