[Fot] Driver Census

Wed Jun 20 06:37:20 MDT 2018

 Hi,
I'll also toss out this, based on experience with a number of organizations.
Clubs like SCCA see fairly consistent participation levels of about 10% of membership. So, with 65,000 members, SCCA has around 6500 members that participate on a regular basis. There are also a number of non-regular participants, but putting a number on that is fairly difficult. For example, there are members that join to do a track day or autocross, try it and then decide to walk away. But they are not active beyond that. There are a few local-ish specialized clubs that see higher participation rates, but a lot of them have members that are in other clubs (like SCCA or NASA or VRG or whatever), so excepting cases where the local club is the ONLY venue available, there are folks with dual club affiliation, so you can't just add up all the  club memberships to get a total because the numbers would be skewed. And even if you included NHRA (which is at 65000+ members) and some of the roundy-round groups like local NASCAR, if there's 100000 "participants" in the USA, I would be surprised.
Based on the population, the number is pretty small. Like .02% if not less.
This is an interesting question, for sure.
Regards,Bob Lang

    On Wednesday, June 20, 2018, 8:00:10 AM EDT, Terry Stetler via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:  

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While I don’t have any numbers, you are quite correct.

Once, long ago some of my SCCA buddies and I had a conversation with an engineer from Ford at one of our regional meetings.  My question to him was, why not put BIG disc brakes on the Mustang?

He said that less than 2% of owners take part in any organized competitive events, hence there is no incentive to tailor the Mustang to “our” (enthusiast) market.   Of course there are now very good Mustang models out there, but his assertion still rings true.

I’d say that less than two percent of all car owners take part in ANY organized competitive events of any kind, so racing would be a tiny subset of that 2%.

Terry Stetler

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From: Fot <fot-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Allen Washatko via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 10:57:06 PM
To: FOT
Subject: [Fot] Driver Census 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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