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Subject: [Fot] Driver Census
From: smyers at mac.com (Stephen Myers)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:20:35 -0500
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The number of licensed drivers in ACCUS (FIA), IMSA, SCCA, and NASA would be 
easily recorded and even then a large number of those will never enter a race 
this year.  SCCA or any other organization would never give you a number of how 
many competition drivers they have as they would never want such a pitiful 
number to be advertised.

Then add in the number of vintage and endurance drivers who are not required to 
have full competition licenses to compete in events.  I would guess only a 
small fraction of drivers that held ?licenses? from a vintage group or 
endurance groups like ChumpCar actually make it to a race each year.

I was told once that the turn over for drivers is around 7 years in SCCA/NASA.  
In seven years peoples lives will change and they usually drop out of racing 
because of kids, economy, or health issues.

Cars are so fast today that you could go buy a brand new mustang put hoosiers 
on it and put down faster times than anyone in our vintage races and do it 
during a track day.  You don?t need to race full competition to get the speed 
anymore and with time trial/attack events popping up all over that do not 
require licenses more and more people are staying away from the professional 
organizations.

-Steve



> On Jun 19, 2018, at 9:57 PM, Allen Washatko via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> FOT,
> 
> Would anyone want to venture a guess as to how many drivers there are in the 
> USA who actually race: vintage organizations, SCCA, Indy, NASCAR, IMSA, 
> amateur, professional, etc.  Not track day, autocross, etc.  I?m interested 
> in calculating the percentage of the population that participated in our 
> world. I would guess that it is a tiny fraction.
> 
> Allen
> 
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