To add a bit of background, we have had really positive feedback from some people about the new style, but we've also had some negative feedback from a few.
We're not sure what the balance of opinion is amongst the racers at the club, hence the poll.
My own personal feeling....I love the new style! It straight away felt like the racing was closer and way more competitive and therefore much more fun
Mainly because you get more drivers to race against at the same pace as you...which is way more fun, and you spend far less time worrying about the slower/faster cars in your heats and reduce the amount of lapping and resulting incidents this mismatch in pace causes.
This pace difference is particularly true for the fastest guys and slowest guys when they end up on track together with low numbers in one class. The racing then becomes much less competitive and much less fun sadly.
I don't want to bring 2 cars every week to find out which class is going to be best attended, so knowing it doesn't matter makes my life much simpler.
And the main reason we tried it in the first place...for the club nights it means you reduce the number of heats with low numbers racing in them. More heats = less track time, and heats with small numbers in them = crap marshalling! So it was a measure to help on those 2 things.
If we had even more racers and enough time to separate them all out, splitting the heats into classes would be absolutely fine, and I'd prefer that too, but Friday nights are a challenge on both counts!
Interested to hear how you all think it went though.