Scott Meyers wrote:
>No wonder the Street Tire classes are huge in our and many other
>areas........oops - don't want to rehash that old argument :-)
You know I have to do a reality check with Oregon Region's statistics and
Street Tire classes just aren't very big here. We offer an indexed Street
Tire class and "standard" Street Touring classes... given that, people
overwhelmingly choose to run in the R tire classes once they leave the
indexed Novice class. I think we still make Novices move to a "real" class
after 4 events if they haven't won, so it really is necessary to make a
choice.
To make the following table, I subtracted all Novice, Street Touring, Street
Tire, & Time Only entries from the total entries to arrive at "Total R Tire
Entries". "Total Street Tire Entries" are the combination of Street Touring
and Street Tire classes. Time Only in Oregon Region is usually a second
entry to gain practice rather than someone avoiding entering into a points
battle.
1999 1998 1998 1998 1998
Event 1 Event 9 Event 8 Event 7 Event 6
Number of Entries 188 153 138 136 148
Novice 38 27 27 28 27
Street Touring 5 4 3 3 4
Street Tire (indexed) 3 4 4 6 9
Time Only 16 42 19 28 26
Total R Tire Entries 126 76 85 71 82
Total Street Tire Entries 8 8 7 9 13
George "I hope the formatting isn't munged" Emery
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