The number of licensed drivers in ACCUS (FIA), IMSA, SCCA, and NASA would be
easily recorded and even then a large number of those will never enter a race
this year. SCCA or any other organization would never give you a number of how
many competition drivers they have as they would never want such a pitiful
number to be advertised.
Then add in the number of vintage and endurance drivers who are not required to
have full competition licenses to compete in events. I would guess only a
small fraction of drivers that held ?licenses? from a vintage group or
endurance groups like ChumpCar actually make it to a race each year.
I was told once that the turn over for drivers is around 7 years in SCCA/NASA.
In seven years peoples lives will change and they usually drop out of racing
because of kids, economy, or health issues.
Cars are so fast today that you could go buy a brand new mustang put hoosiers
on it and put down faster times than anyone in our vintage races and do it
during a track day. You don?t need to race full competition to get the speed
anymore and with time trial/attack events popping up all over that do not
require licenses more and more people are staying away from the professional
organizations.
-Steve
> On Jun 19, 2018, at 9:57 PM, Allen Washatko via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> wrote:
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> FOT,
>
> Would anyone want to venture a guess as to how many drivers there are in the
> USA who actually race: vintage organizations, SCCA, Indy, NASCAR, IMSA,
> amateur, professional, etc. Not track day, autocross, etc. I?m interested
> in calculating the percentage of the population that participated in our
> world. I would guess that it is a tiny fraction.
>
> Allen
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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