Doug, thanks for the clarification! Now will everyone just go back to their own respective forums and allow us to shape the future of Fv (if possible) without any outside flame throwing. There's not one formula car class that can't use more entrants, so quit worrying about us and concern yourself with the class of car you're currently racing. Positive suggestions are always appreciated but to constantly remind us of the past, make negative future predictions and generally stir up trouble isn't needed nor appreciated by those of us who want to see this class survive and prosper.
Mark
Yes Mark...we need to grow, but how?
I'm racing Vees since 1976 in South Africa. Immigrated to Canada and found the channels into racing here and the US very intimidating and near impossible to get into unless you have someone somewhere who helps you.
After racing more then 210 vee races I found the "soft landing" to be just the opposite. Nowhere a hint here in Canada that it's actually called f1200. I bought a vee that sat stationed in my garage for two years until I found someone that gave me a link to Guy who gave me a number to call in the US.
The SCCA member first wanted me to go to a driving school to prepare me for the realities of North American racing which I refused. The car sat for another year with me going back to SA to race in the 2hr endurance Vee race and one more National race.
I then walked into a mechanic at Canadian Tire that gave me the contact of f1200. I called Harry and he invited me to a race at Mosport. My knowledge sucks on air cool vees. I met Bill Vallis that got me back on track and do the maintenance.
The process once again with the authorities proofed to be a not so nice experience. This time I told them from the get go that I refuse to do driving school and wants to know if I can race with my SA license. They issued a license at last.
This nonsense kept a car and driver out of racing here in North America for three years.
*NOW FOR A NEWBIE....IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. THIS NEED TO CHANGE TO ATTRACT NEW MEMBERS.
My daughter wants to race and raced go karts for many years but don't want to go through all of this. She's now going to join me as partner in the 2hr endurance race at Kyalami.