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Originally Posted by midgetman
You're right Paul. Entries are falling across the board and there's no one single cause.
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Motor sport is increasingly expensive in time and cash, and there are many oter demands on both such that younger people can't easily justify it.
Increasing "professionalism" is also partly to blame, and the day when you could turn up for a National F Ford Champinship with your Dad and a Transit van are long gone, sadly. Perhaps regs should be introduced banning lorries in raçe paddocks and costs will also reduce.
However, it is simply not true that entries are falling across the board. Cscc keeps getting over 300 cars out over a weekend meeting and takes 120 to Spa each year; Monoposto is thriving in the club single seater world; most series in 750 seem to be doing ok; HSCC generally seem to be doing ok, GT Cup is doing ok after a rocky year some time back, Sports 2000 has revived itself, MSVR own series are doing ok. I wonder what the common denominator is here? Arh, yes - value for money and giving customers what they want.
I am not familiar with every club, but of the many clubs, it's BARC that seems to be struggling most and has lost a fortune (£2M?) over the last 3 years.
Ok, not every series/ club mentioned above is in the historic sector but there are still success stories.