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Originally Posted by Alan Morgan
It's no wonder track days are popular with younger drivers.
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Indeed.
Plus you can go to the places you choose to go for the driving fun and you don't need to travel around the country if you don't want to.
No scrutineering other then perhaps noise tests.
And more often than not, more track time with less chance of damage.
It's not racing but then nor are sprints (for example) and there seem to be many people who find a sprint or a hillclimb just as satisfying for an adrenaline rush as racing would be.
And then there is Time Attack or perhaps drifting that may have more appeal to the younger generations. Can get expensive though finding those extra few tenths of a second.
There is also the question of how one might perceive the equivalent of an Historic perspective.
For some years now many open wheel formula have been single chassis for a 5 year period (or something like that). Will that be a good basis for a future historic category? Will there be enough chassis to spread around in private ownership to make a worthwhile number of entrants year after year?
If we consider saloons on the more modern era for "new historic" we have have had, outside the BTCC which probably does not count anyway, a lot of one make series.
So something like 3 or 4 generations of Clios for example. Now they were not modified road cars with a couple of strengthening plates - they were dedicated racing models. Would there be enough interest in them to have a multi-class Clio series running historic cars?
Likewise Seats?
Minis?
Could they all be combined into single races if the numbers dictated that that should be the way to go?
Obviously it's not impossible but is there likely to be the level of interest from the currently younger generation? Do they see those existing "formulas" as something they might wish to aspire to if and when they can afford it in middle age?
Then there is the question of whether one will be allowed to tow in the era of autonomously driven electric vehicles ....!
