I agree that it's a good idea to have less F1's (maybe 20 or so) but overall what difference does it REALLY make?
I know it makes you personally feel a bit better about yourself to be able to say you're in the top 20 or top 10 in the UK, but to me it doesn't really affect anything racing wise??
I think the main reason behind any rule changes to formula's etc needs to concentrate on the fact that people aren't really attending regionals at the moment (i know some regions are well attended but on the hole they're down in numbers).
It's great having an over-subscribed national series, but as PaulW once told me we're almost becoming "too good" at the hobby and it's getting harder for new people to get into the sport at grass roots level hence (and no dis-respect to anyone intended) you get such a vast difference in ability at UK Nationals.
Heat 1 to me should be ideally minimum F4's if not F3's so that overall the standard at a National would be higher.
I know the likes of Mr Stanley etc wouldn't have been able to race this year, but like i've done in 2007 it wouldn't really hurt to just do a year of racing at regionals to get your F status up to the required level to "proove" you're good enough to compete at what should be the highest level?
I think overall this is the downfall of 1/10th off road as people only seem to really want to race at Nats regardless of if they're (imo) actually good enough??
Hope that makes sense, i'm just thinking as i type really
1/8th and other classes seem to get really good following at all types of events, not only nationals so we need to look at why this isn't happening in 1/10 off road?