Originally Posted by aaron_buran
My comments were not intended to disrespect anyone, just wanted to spur on some converstation, the thread seemed pretty dead.
Not sure if I buy the "if ain't broke, don't fix it argument", the series attendence in the second half of the series was down considerably. Attendance at Detroit, Mentor and Racine was very low year over year. Not sure if this was because of the venue, or because folks don't feel that series itself, is worth striving for. Or the points system is too unforgiving... For example a DNF's early in the series coupled with not being able to make 1 of the series races, pretty much exclude a decenet series finish for the average racer?
On the points / main length, maybe the mains are fixed in length in terms of duration, but it doesn't necessarily mean the points system is equitable. Many of the intermediate drivers and novice drivers would benefit from overall position, versus total laps on the points. This would also support bumps, which would allow for more track time to all levels of racers.
Aaron,
You have raced in this series a long time, so you already know that the 1st race of the year gets a great draw and last race of the year does not draw very well. Cinci was well attended this year because of the Nats and so was Toledo because of the GLC and being the 2nd event of the series. Now you add in the fact that these two tracks are the best in the series. That was not a very good scheduling move, having the two best tracks back to back. Mark will need to use a little better judgment this year when making out the schedule.
The points system seems to work just fine for the racer who attends most of the series events. After all that is what the points system is supposed to do, award the best racers of that weekend series event.