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Originally Posted by DX20VT
And you may find if Tier one was held as 6 rounds at Hampton Downs the good numbers may be there too.
All classes can have a good one off entry,
Production GT had something link 35 to 30 cars at Teretonga.
Try getting you masses of Classic competitors to run a full season of races across all the NZ tracks and see how many would still enter?
For the good of motorsport in NZ a series may have to suffer some low numbers at some tracks to help promote others,
after all it is Motorsport New Zealand, Not Motorsport Auckland.
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I agree that ideally a MSNZ Championship Series should be run throughout the country but do you persevere with the same old format throwing millions of dollars at it when it is not working?
With the Production GT class at Teretonga in January there were actually 23 entrants (the separate Sports GT grid had 10 entrants). With respect to these drivers, most were locals doing a one-off event and were not MSNZ Championship Series contenders. In fact, with the combined Production and Sports GT Series there was only
one car that did all championship rounds - hardly indicative of a robust championship series.
The comment about MSNZ not being Motor Sport Auckland is closer to the truth than perhaps you realise. Motor sport competitors and cubs in Auckland actually get pretty much ignored by MSNZ and that is behind some of the grips. There are about 97 affiliated clubs to MSNZ but only 23 come from Auckland. The Auckland based clubs tend to have larger membership numbers than other clubs. However, each club has a vote irrespective of it's member numbers - a club with 10 members has the same say as a club with 300 members.
It appears from entrant records that around half of MSNZ's licensed competitors compete on the Auckland based tracks but within MSNZ the Auckland clubs have less than 25% say. Despite the competitor numbers and the income generated through the Auckland clubs, it appears that there is little affinity within MSNZ for either Auckland or the historic and classic fraternity (hardly surprising considering there has been no Aucklander on MSNZ Executive for over 10 years and no H&C person for almost a similar period). Due to the 75% voting block from non-Auckland clubs it is almost impossible to get representation so there is no point in putting your name forward.