[jondell]

The commercial aspect must also be considered.

Model shops need more customers to survive, and currently we are seeing less and less model shops... clashing races means that shops would need to choose which race to go to, which means the model shop is not supporting all of his customers at the actual place where customers want support (the track). ok so not all shops want to go to races on sunday or cater for both classes, but many do.

IF that shop then decides to drop stocking a class because of clashes.... who loses?? the customer, then the club, then the class. (and the shop during all of that period)

Then on another level, we have distributor companies that support both classes. Some of these distributors employ people to attend races to support the shops, the customers and their team drivers. Clashes again will result in the need to decide which event they attend. This is most likely based on which class creates the most revenue. Without the distributor chap at the event, the class loses support, development and quite importantly media coverage.... funny how most of these guys are at 8th races and media coverage of 8th is far greater than 10th.