[Fot] Driver Census

[Stephen Myers]

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:
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> FOT,
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> 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.
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> Allen
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