Just a thought

[Wingnut]

thats a really good idea.
Keep the current format for the keen but also have the North Island Champs and South Island champs.

As Nationals are Nationals and if you want to be Champ you have to commit I mean there are alot of guys out there commiting at the momment and full credit to them.

But also run a North Island series and South Island seires for the people waniting to compete in a bigger championship.

If you understand what im saying.

Plus one question irrelevent why dont Taupo race way get used for Nationals

Yea mate - thats it! It would no doubt see an increase in competitors (myself inc.) and inturn it would then be more appealing to the spectators, sponsers, tv coverage etc etc. Increased exposure - increased income for the clubs - gotta be a step in the right direction. Or am I over simplifying things here???

[roadracingoldfart]

Yea mate - thats it! It would no doubt see an increase in competitors (myself inc.) and inturn it would then be more appealing to the spectators, sponsers, tv coverage etc etc. Increased exposure - increased income for the clubs - gotta be a step in the right direction. Or am I over simplifying things here???

Nah mate , simple is good.

[scracha]

is fairly consistant (ie a rugby pitch is a std size) where as no two race tracks are the same.

Every football (soccer) pitch I've played on has been unique?

We have got (potentially) 7 national level race tracks within a country of about 1600kms, alot of countries couldn't say that!

A lot of countries could. We have a good number per capita tho!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_auto_racing_tracks

spectators coming to watch a Nth or Sth Island cup than you would a full national meeting.

You'd certainly get more competitors though. Hell, even this disillusioned Scotsman would be interested. More competitors = more spectators

[scracha]

Plus one question irrelevent why dont Taupo race way get used for Nationals

AFAIK PMCC were asked but the track hire costs were stupidly expensive compared to Puke and Manfield.

[roadracingoldfart]

Just a selfish bump !!!!


Does this subject need more input or not ????


Or .........


Is it a no brainer like our National Series is ??? and nobody will miss it when its gone ??

[CHET]

SOUNDS LIKE A BLOODY GOOD IDEA TO ME .

[Clivoris]

Take it to MNZ mate.

[Racin Jason]

thats a really good idea.
Keep the current format for the keen but also have the North Island Champs and South Island champs.

As Nationals are Nationals and if you want to be Champ you have to commit I mean there are alot of guys out there commiting at the momment and full credit to them.

But also run a North Island series and South Island seires for the people waniting to compete in a bigger championship.

If you understand what im saying.

Plus one question irrelevent why dont Taupo race way get used for Nationals

Yip, a vote from me. I think that would be great. We used to NI and SI cups but at club level. You'd have more to race for at a national level, and without taking anything away from the current national series.

And from what i understand running at Taupo ment that either VMCC or AMCC would have had to run two meetings which none of them could manage.

[t3mp0r4ry nzr]

sounds algood! really, there is nothing to loose!

[Benk]

You'd certainly get more competitors though. Hell, even this disillusioned Scotsman would be interested. More competitors = more spectators

+1 Id be keen on competing in all rounds of a north Island championship for sure.

[wharfy]

You would get less spectators, because there would be less competitors & less entertainment.
Regardless of what we do for a job during the week, we are entertainers on the weekend, the sooner we realise that racing comes second to entertaining the sooner the crowds will come back.

There is something to this, Wanganui and Pearoa draw big crowds they have become EVENTS not just a race. A bit like the rugby sevens half the people that go to the sevens don't care about the quality of the rugby or even who wins (unless its NZ v AUS). Thousands of people who NEVER go to the races go to the Wellington Cup and couldn't tell a racehorse from a cow but have a ball.

So how do we turn the Manfield round of the Nationals into a "Wellington Cup" type event ? Starting of modestly of course, it is no good spending shit loads on marketing and have the crowd turn up and have a crap day. We need a modest crowd to turn up and have a brilliant day (and not JUST a hangover from drinking in the Sun).

We need to start with Motorcyclists - It should be an EVENT so cool that bikers should be ashamed to say they were not there. I only got to see the last three races this year but the F1 race was so cool it was worth it. If there is any Video footage (megabytes in this digital age ?) of that race it should be made available to everyone who is even the slightest bit interested. The crowd weren't on the edge of their seat they were on their feet. I don't know how to do this, I'm in IT not marketing, but I know that you can sell ANYTHING old shite if marketing is done aggressively (which is why we have Windows instead of OS/2 ).