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Originally Posted by ian h
This is where the open ended championship falls down, for this year can we not extend the counting rounds to 8 from 10 or something and then for next year pin down the 6 counting rounds into more like a regional format and then use other rounds as a club rounds. I appreciate that for a regional format we would ideally want more than 1 venue but if we continue with the Jag event for example this could be counted as a regional round rather than a club round. This in effect would lead to 3 championships, I.e. Club, regional and national. If we do stick to what we have from this year with best 6 to count and a multiple tie then a once off shootout is hardly fair to the competitors involved IMO. I think that what we need to do is learn how to do things smarter next year. That's all for now folks I'm back off to the Maui sunshine!!!
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I'd be happy to see the championship expanded out to 8 or 10 counting rounds instead of the current 6 - but it's pretty unfair on Mick O'Leary. At the end of the day he has been at racing pretty much every week and has been consistant - and I think with him currently battling to physically last a whole days racing a decision like this may have been left way too late and would be really unfair.
For next year I'll be proposing that the
first Sunday in every month is a "Championship Round" - 6 rounds during May to September with your best 4 scores to count. Every Sunday throughout the year will be a "Clubman Round" where F4 and F5 drivers earn points every week with 70% (rounded down) of the total rounds run counting - at the moment that would be 11 rounds to count from 16.
Rather than a regional series, I'd like to see the RCCAOI National expanded out to at least 3 rounds -
all to count with 3 different venues - Lucan, Cork and Drop-In or Jag&Daimler or Venue-X. Perhaps these events could be run on bank holiday Mondays as most people are not working on those??
Hope the honey-moon is going well Ian, some good mracing happening at the moment - when are you home?
Did you get my text about the genny? New plug sorted it.