Why aren't low dollar FV's selling quickly?
OK....so where are all the people who say they'd love to get into formula car racing or FV in particular but it is just too expensive? Sure this car has been sitting and will need a thorough going over and lots of bits and pieces updated/replaced/cleaned-up, but there is a lot of stuff here for $2500 obo. Do it a little at a time as you can afford and you will have a nice car in the end and you can race. You will get plenty of advice/help from other racers, believe me!
If you need to sell one of your motorcycles or other toys, tow with a cheap open trailer, use a piece of junk minivan that is falling apart to tow, sleep in a tent at the track, or whatever. "Racers race". Plain and simple.
Sorry for the rant.
Real Reality vs Virtual Reality
The SCCA is graying and time spent on computers has cut into everything. I am in advertising and my motorcycle customers tell me they just aren't getting young guys anymore. I deal with the NRA and they are losing membership as young guys are not hunting anymore as much as before. It is everywhere and particularly affect things that are costly. Manufacturers have to load up new geys with electronics s they are what is selling to young customers. The love affair with the car is slipping away for a generation.
Jim Kleinklaus
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Originally Posted by
Bill Bonow
Matt,
I don't think this is a FV issue so much as it is a SCCA Road Racing issue for "low buck" racing classes. As I see it, our racing take a mixture of two major items: Free time and expendable money. All racing needs this. The more affluent classes use more money than time, but typically our (FV) end of the spectrum is some money and lots of time. Face it, if we all had more expendable income, FV would likely not be on the top of the "what do I want to race" list.
How I think that applies here is the "cheap buy in" cars will typically require lots of time and money. Couple that with all the other expenditures required to get on the track and the list of potential buyers starts to really shrink. In some situations, these cars get bought only to realize (after purchase) that racing might not be in their reality. Thus creating the "garage queen" syndrome.
I think many of the "low cost" classes are seeing the same thing, FV just sees more of it as they are on the lower end of the cost spectrum.
Just my opinions
What do we do to recruit the young guys
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Originally Posted by
Jim Kleinklaus
The SCCA is graying and time spent on computers has cut into everything. I am in advertising and my motorcycle customers tell me they just aren't getting young guys anymore. I deal with the NRA and they are losing membership as young guys are not hunting anymore as much as before. It is everywhere and particularly affect things that are costly. Manufacturers have to load up new geys with electronics s they are what is selling to young customers. The love affair with the car is slipping away for a generation.
Jim Kleinklaus
:checkered::checkered:
Jim is right about memberships greying that's exactly why we are going to the youth karting programs in Midwest FST. We show the cars at car shows. We can't sit back and hope kids find us and get involved we have to actively recruit non-racers. Face it most young guys aren't familiar with road racing in general. It's rarely broadcast on TV, media coverage doesn't exist, if we aren't showing and preaching they will walk right past us. The younger generation is bombarded by everything and as road racers we have let the sport down by being complacent.
Lets all look beyond our circle.