Nick McDonald
04-11-2007, 09:45 AM
A kick in the teeth
With great disappointment (and enormous surprise) we learned at last months GM, of the exclusion of Q&R Racing and Formula Ford from the 2008 Phillip Island.
As an FF driver I’m particularly disappointed, after the mixed-race shambles last year and the fact that about 10 cars didn’t get entries due to the reduced grid. The year before was not much better. What does FF have to do to get its own race?
PQR and Formula Ford provide some of the greatest racing we see in the open wheel categories. What’s more, they’re genuine racing cars. The VHRR Statement of Purpose is - in essence - to promote historic racing (note “racing”) and to operate for the betterment of its members. I really don’t see this decision helping either.
Some questions to ponder:
Was the decision to drop these categories based on their smaller returns compared to regularity and touring car classes?
Is profitability affected by bringing in overseas cars? Does this in turn mean that VHRR members are compromised as a result?
Why have 4 races for each category, when 3 would allow another to race?
Are 2 regularity and 3 touring car fields now operating at the expense of racing cars? And is this representational of VHRR membership? Group A aren’t even 5th category!
And finally, the VHRR is really short on young members. As it is, many of the ones we have are in Formula Ford. The treatment we’re getting is hardly encouraging. Thankfully we are told that other classes will be dropped on a rotation basis. Let’s hope we see a published roster to that effect.
With great disappointment (and enormous surprise) we learned at last months GM, of the exclusion of Q&R Racing and Formula Ford from the 2008 Phillip Island.
As an FF driver I’m particularly disappointed, after the mixed-race shambles last year and the fact that about 10 cars didn’t get entries due to the reduced grid. The year before was not much better. What does FF have to do to get its own race?
PQR and Formula Ford provide some of the greatest racing we see in the open wheel categories. What’s more, they’re genuine racing cars. The VHRR Statement of Purpose is - in essence - to promote historic racing (note “racing”) and to operate for the betterment of its members. I really don’t see this decision helping either.
Some questions to ponder:
Was the decision to drop these categories based on their smaller returns compared to regularity and touring car classes?
Is profitability affected by bringing in overseas cars? Does this in turn mean that VHRR members are compromised as a result?
Why have 4 races for each category, when 3 would allow another to race?
Are 2 regularity and 3 touring car fields now operating at the expense of racing cars? And is this representational of VHRR membership? Group A aren’t even 5th category!
And finally, the VHRR is really short on young members. As it is, many of the ones we have are in Formula Ford. The treatment we’re getting is hardly encouraging. Thankfully we are told that other classes will be dropped on a rotation basis. Let’s hope we see a published roster to that effect.