A point just dawned on me that I think is crucial to the hobby's success. We can't treat this as one problem, and solve it by discussing it here. We all have different turnouts at our races, and I know the turnout at the track I race at only has 7-8 racers. Obviously, we wouldn't be able to split that up. The last thing you want to do is make a lot of classes with hardly any people in it. That is the first thing that has to be taken into consideration. If your track is like ours, and you get a good percentage of new racers in it, who have trouble driving, the race director MUST sit down with the (regular)racers and talk about how to run the race. Compromises MUST be made if this hobby will survive. A healthy discussion always helps things, and since so many tracks have different conditions, we can't treat this as a universal problem. BUT.... maybe that's just what I think...
-Josh