Michael
PR Addict
One Race a weekend....ONE is the key
First Year No membership..Get the series off the ground bring in NEW racers
I agree with one race a weekend. I've noticed most people stick to racing one or two tracks, so it's always the same (sometimes small) group of people racing a class aside from like 250C and Supermini. It is kind of nice having two races to choose from if your work schedule varies from week to week. But, if all the tracks are picked out and dates set up then people shouldn't have a problem requesting off those days they wanted to race.
Another point I completely agree with. Maybe even make it a constant fee forever. How about bumping the race fee to $30 instead of $25, then take put take that $5 instead of charging for a membership? Don't advertise it as $25+$5. Just say it's a flat $30 to race each race with no yearly membership fees, and advertise it as free membership. I know that extra $5 wouldn't scare me away. Plus, who doesn't get excited when they see the word "free?"
EDIT:
MalvernMX said:When it comes to the membership fee. That is where the bulk of the money comes from for the awards party and part of the awards. The other part is sponsorship material.
Just gonna continue on about my idea of bumping up the fee of each race.
If you have someone that only wants to race a couple races a year, they end up paying $10 in "membership fees." That'll make them happy that didn't have to spend $25 to race only one or two races.
Then you have the people who race as many races as the can make it too. If they're that committed they shouldn't mind an extra $5 a race. Let's say they race 12 races in the year, that's $60 in "membership fees" vs the normal $25.
To me, that's a win-win. I'm basing this idea on the assumption that there are more people who race more than 5 times a year than those who are don't. If this isn't the case, than my idea would be counter productive.