I'm with Lee here, it's all a balance for me. I have to keep me, the wife and now the little one happy.
I race Nationals and Regionals, and find very few free weekends other than those, yet I STILL get people saying we should run more regional rounds!
The NE regional series (8 meetings) was combined into 6 weekends total this year to allow more club days.
I do sit on my local clubs committee and try to help the club as much as possible outside club nights, helping organise big meetings and a new winter championship that atrackted people to come and race at the club that wouldn't have normally made the trip.
I'm also a person who doesn't like to race week in, week out, I do actually get sick of it, and like a weekend off.
My local club is also a good 30 minute drive.
So those are my reasons. Make of them what you will.
I do agree with all the points about new blood though and I've also thought what we could do to attract new members. We have held meetings at other large public events in the past, but fitting them into the racing calender is hard work - it's always the same few people that do this stuff.
I sometimes think clubs have the wrong idea about attracting people, a big one off meeting will only attract people currently racing, no new people, we need to work out how to get the new people into the grass roots of the sport.
Any ideas welcome.
G