Originally Posted by
Advil
Hmmm,
It looks like so far we have:
1.)Too fast for Average Joe to participate.
2.)No incentive for the faster Stock guys to move up. Possible loss of Sponsorship...
I guess the question is; how can we fix this? Motor limits in the mod class? Eliminate ALL sponsorship for the Stock classes? Ideas anyone?
You have to start at the teams and have them do a re-assesment of how they are bringing on "Team" drivers and what their purpose are. In this time and age with the internet, anyone with enough tenacity can continue to nag themselves into a sponsorship of some sort or another. Big deal, just about everyone wants to be a "Team" driver to get some kind of discount, it means nothing to most of them and they would gladly jump ship as soon as a better deal comes up. All of a sudden what was good one day is complete junk the next day, and thats because its just too easy, no brand loyalty.
SO make the stock or super stock winner the people that move themselves up in the "Team" ranking. Get the manufacturers on board with a deal like the winner of the stock has to move up (ROAR standards) but also have some knid of "full meal deal sponsorship" to go with it. I'm not talking a 100%er but something like a "B" or "B+" sponsorship. These guys, the manufacturers or what ever "Team" deal could dump a lot of dead weight from their teams and concentrate on making a "Team" sponsorship something worth working for and keeping, and with the trim job there would be more for those that are kept on with the "Team". Get the manufacturers to all agree on how many "Team" drivers they can have instead of this flooding of the field to get a win. If they where to do that then we would actually have the start of the selection of the pro-rating of the drivers for each of the classess. For example a official "Team" would be allowed 10 drivers, 3 mod, 3 super stock, 3 stock and 1 floater, the floater could be a person that the "Team" is developing and could slot into any one of the classess.