I'm not the bean counter for any club, but I wonder... if ICSCC did go to some sort of schedule that involved two races per 2-day race weekend, how would that change the number of second entries? Second entries help get the weekend paid for.
I would imagine that if we went to this type of schedule a few other things would have to change to accomodate it, allowing the clubs to maintain the current cashflow.
Logistically I would look at it like this from a scheduling/cost/income point of view:
1: The number of races in the season would have to expand, by double. If every "single" weekend became a "double" weekend then that would lead to us having a 24-30 race schedule without increasing the number of weekends.
2: Because of #1, our minimum race attendance to qualify for championship would greatly increase. So a racer might have to enter 15 races just to qualify for a championship... kind of cool.
3: We would have to do away with the 3 races per track rule and possibly increase it to a 6 races per track rule. However, the PR and Ridge conundrum with IRDC still eludes me.
4: Under the current setup, we make a good deal of extra $$ on 2nd entries as illustrated by Lance. However, with this new type of schedule would we lose 2nd run group entries?... I think so but would we lose money?
Currently we have primary drivers represented by X and lets say that 65% of those drivers enter a second run group but the 2nd run group is at a discounted rate (say 55% discount of primary entry) so for the value the drivers 2nd run group would be X(.65)-55%. (I know I put the formula together wrong but Math isn't my strong suit).
Just theoretically: Take a weekend with 300 entries (big weekend, I know). That means there were 182 primary entries in which 65% of those of drivers doubled entered giving us 300 entries. Ok, so the 182x$270/entry = $49,140. Then we have 118 double entries = 118x$150/2nd entry = $17,700 With a grand total of
$66,840.
So let's assume that with this new proposed schedule we lost ALL of our second entries for sake of math and the club still issued a discounted rate for Sunday's races at the same rate they did for 2nd entries. Would we have 182x$270 and then we would have 182x$150. However lets assume there's some attrition and instead of 100% of our Saturday entrants running on Sunday and we lose 25% over night. So that equates to 136. 136x$150= $20,400. So $49,140 From Saturday and $20,400 from Sunday puts us at:
$69,540. That's a gain and working under the assumption that 0 drivers ran secondary run group as well.
With that said, should it be implemented for every event next year? I don't know. However, it might be interesting to experiment with it at 1 or 2 weekends.
With that said, addressing this same thing from a driver's point of view.
1: I won't know if I like it until I try it.
2: I really like the idea of doing 4 sessions in a weekend in one group and now having 2 of them be races!
3: If it was the norm for every weekend I might enter 2 classes less sure, but I'd still rent to my dad meaning the car might see 4 races in a traditional weekend!
4: It would increase wear and tear on the car but that's racing and one of the reasons I race a Honda.
Another question: With this type of weekend (racing on sat and sunday) would that possibly increase entries on Friday T&T's?
That's my $.02.