If your a racer you take your vacation off season.
Here's some examples foreverfast. If everyone dropped their lowest race and all made the same number of races how could it not work out ok? I thought it might but when I put down different numbers it seems like it will work ok. Might be some number crunch where it would not, but quickly looking at it I don't see it.
8,8,8,8,8,8,0=48 drop a 0 and total is 48 First place
7,7,7,7,7,7,8=50 drop a 7 and total is 43 Second place
8,8,8,8,8,8,0=48 drop 0 and total is 48
7,7,7,7,7,7,8=50 drop 7 and total is 43
0,8,8,8,8,8,8=48 drop 0 and total is 48
8,0,7,7,7,7,7=43 drop 0 and total is 43
7,7,6,6,6,6,0=38 Third place still comes out third place.
I personally think local Saturday night and series points racing is as much about attendance as it is about who finished first and should be so. If you put the effort in, are consistent and other racers skip races you don't, you should have the opportunity to win the points even if you never won a race. The only reason for drops is because "fast" or better racers complain.
They tell tracks they won't run at all in the tracks regular points series unless there are drops because they want to run in some blow hard promoters money grabbing series. The tracks to get kart count give in for kart count and those who are not so good and support the track every race loose out to the fast cry babies. The ONLY reason for drops and the reason drops came to be is not about vacations. It's about some racers wanting to go play in a money hungry promoters series at the expense and hurt of local Saturday night racing.
When the number of outside series increases local Saturday night participation decreases. And I don't think any track operator will disagree with it. They may look at their turn to get the series as a big money night or their only big money night all year, but the big picture is still as the number of series goes up, their yearly kart count and profits goes down. There is no way when the number of series increases profits will not go down because with any series an outsider is brought in to take a cut from profit.
If tracks would suck it in and not give in to drops demanded by winy, complaining racers who think there too good for local Saturday night racing, they'd have better over all kart counts. If your a racer you take your vacation off season. Fact is most or at least the better racers will use drops to go race somewhere else and not for vacation.
You either race for a money grabbing promoters series points and payout with fill in racing at your local Saturday night track. Or you support and race your local Saturday night track for money and points. Doing both or only running series hurts the weekly foundation of karting and racing.
I'd like to see a year when all tracks get together refuse all series racing.
If your a racer you take your vacation off season.
