Actually FB is a National Class
Maybe I'm not reading or comprehending correctly, maybe you guys are implying that we will be a National class only when we get to go the Runoffs?
What we are trying to do more than anything else is comply with the "5 Year Plan" as outlined a few years back by SCCA, which basically states that we have 5 years to get the numbers above the 2.5 car average per National race, or lose the Nat status and go Reg'l only.
We are currently at the end of year 2.
Hitting the number in 2010 will grant us a Runoffs berth at Rd Am for the 2011 Runoffs, just 1 year prior to the Mayan calculated end of it all. Sweet!!
Getting to go to the Runoffs as one of the Top 24 classes from the previous year's Nat participation #'s would be icing on the cake.
At this point we are merely trying to reach the goal stated above.
THEN we can concern ourselves with things like the Runoffs.
Here's an idea: Any Regional FB guys that want to run a National can be "mentored" by one of your more experienced brethren. A win-win. Help get the numbers up, recieve free coaching, advise, help, whatever.
I'll start the ball rolling and will be available to anyone running the FLA Winter Nat's.
Only requirement is that you have never run a National in the past.
GC