Racers thoughts

[Smartalec]

Hi all,
In recent chats with both Tony Truman and Dave Church an idea came up about how to create more crowd "interaction" at primarily, the national off road meetings. I'd like to run the idea past everyone and get some feedback on here as to your thoughts and suggestions.

The idea is simply this, if we take a typical national entry of around 120 drivers and everyone participates. Each person pays £2 and for their money they get to draw a driver out of the hat, this driver is "theirs" for the day and in the finals if their driver wins then they win the money. The amount of money won is obviously dependant on how many people participate and how many finals there are. In the above example the amount of money won on each final would be £20, this is enough to create interest and not enough to spoil anything, it's basically enough to cover your petrol (for most people) for the weekend.

The main point of this is nothing to do with the money, it's to do with the fact that potentially for EVERY final there could be ten different people (and their mates) cheering for someone they might not have even spoken to before. This coupled with the commentary of MC DC and MC TT would be interesting/loud LOL.

I'd prefer to have one of the major distributors contribute prizes so we didn't have to rely on the money aspect but you all know that won't happen. I think a couple of quid is well within everyone's reach (at national level) and I think that this would create an excellent atmosphere for the finals. How many times has the K final been watched by anyone except the marshalls? ........... it would be good for someone who's constantly in the last final to be cheered on by one of the top boys

Your thoughts?