Johnny!
To the first point - The proposal was put forward to my club committee by me. I never consulted with anyone of any other club; there were only talks between myself and some other club members. I don’t participate in lobbying between the Interclub reps, but it probably goes on every time someone wants a change; rightly or wrongly in all areas of interest that are run in a democratic way. Whoever wants support for a concept, goes to those that are most likely to give support, and thus build up momentum, before bringing it forward.

To the second point – Bigger numbers will usually make the competition stronger, and I believe that those that manage to get amongst the top have earned more points for their club in tougher competition. The win is still a win regardless of the numbers and the podium positions will still get the same trophies that they would under the old system. No-one can take the points with them from any round, as a club can only still score a maximum of 10 points, and the focus shouldn’t be on that. Think of it as a bottom up system where the last placing gets 1 point and scores moving upwards from that.

To the third point –The old system was far from accepted as fair by all and was due for some reform, it encouraged clubs to engineer entries to fill classes with small numbers, did not do enough to encourage all members of every club to contribute to the event, and to stay and participate in the lower finals. And the fact that gas drivers were competing for 110 points in only 2 classes, while a similar number of electric drivers had 220 points that they could collect from 4 classes was not regarded as fair in the feedback that I had about the points. There are still 20 more points available in Electric than in gas, so the system is still skewed in favour of electric drivers, but it at least goes some way to address the disparity.

And in response to your next post; no Sunny Coast gas driver that took part in the ORRCA Electric Titles last year did it just to make up numbers. I know them all, and they did it because that they love racing at big events, and I expect the same this year. I sincerely hope that we will see much more of that spirit in this year’s and future titles.

Now; all this kind of looks like an attack on you; Johnny, but it is far from meant to be. It is only meant to clarify what the intentions with it are, particularly in regards to the concerns that you have raised. I do respect your opinions and criticism, and I kind of expected a little resistance from some of the electric guys. I am not kind that lies down and accepts anything and everything without trying to address it, but I had no idea of whether the reforms would be accepted by my club when I proposed it. It was also accepted by your club according to a previous post by Shane, so it appears that most of the Interclub reps saw merits in it. The issue of more points for smaller clubs is too hard for me, and I do not believe that it is possible to come up with a system that is seemed as fair which addresses that problem. You will probably find that most of those that criticises the concept, will be those that come from a club with a very small number of gas drivers, as it probably rewards the clubs that have a healthy number of both electric and gas drivers.

At last; I would suggest that anyone that can come up with a points scoring system that addresses the issue of encouraging bigger participation, acknowledges that it is much tougher in big numbers of entries, encourages drivers to participation in lower finals, discourages clubs from engineering the entries just to get points, and is fair to clubs with a majority of either electric or gas drivers; do what I did, bring it to your club committee and see if they accept it, and then see if the rest of the clubs also will.

Kindest regards,
Lars.