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Originally Posted by Smartalec
There are not enough juniors to attract (this is a fact based on numbers attending events all around the country)
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Unsurprising without attempts being made to encourage or retain them. Often they are making huge strides in terms of improvement, but it is totally unrewarded as the gulf between a first timer and the next person up the list is vast. They can come for weeks and weeks, improving by margins that an A-finalist would give their right arm for, but still be flat last each week.
Not many kids (or beginners) are up for that.. so they find something else to do where they can compete on an equal basis without having to spend vast sums or learn about car setup to the nth degree, or where there is a sliding scale of reward for beginners (like Karate, or swimming etc).