>Some of us are becoming active in administration, course design,
> >promotion, etc.
Agreed. I was the SOLO II co-chairman of my club 1 year after finding out
about SOLO II. Admittedly, we're a club of college students, but that means
that in order for us to stick around, our members have to get seriously
involved quickly, which they do. We typically have no shortage of
volunteers to help with course setup and teardown, we have more people
wanting to design courses than we do events, etc, etc, etc. I honestly
don't know how many people are in our club (I would estimate approx. 150-200
paid members) and we typically get about 15-20 new members every year. Not
all of them autocross, but a number of them do. We hold a autocross
driver's ed course at the start of every semester, and for the past few
semesters, we had 80+ people at each one, most of them new and hooked on the
sport! The low cost is one very seriously attractive feature to SOLO II
racing. Someone mentioned ealier that one solution might be to add more
events to the schedule. I know the schedule is already pretty busy, but if
you add more events, I'd bet you'd still get large turnouts (though they'd
likely be a more manageable size) and have more events = more driving = more
smack talk = more fun! That's what this thing's all about!
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