Possible awards for novices

[Native]

Bob Tamandli said:

As for novices, I see a need to always attract new drivers. Where we seem to have the biggest problem with attendance is at Brooksville. Maybe we need to reduce the entry fee by $5 for novices for their first 5 events. Another would be to present awards at the completion of the event, at least for the novice classes and go a little deeper in presenting awards. Awards are given based on the number of entries in a class. Unless you have at least 6 or more in a class, only one or two awards deep are given. Hope you understand. Some clubs will give a token dash plaque to all entrants which depicts that day's event. Maybe when they are talking about a two day event, such as the one at Brooksville in Oct., charge a little more and include a tee shirt. You need to pre-enter so just request the person's shirt size.

[Jamie]

Bob Tamandli said:

As for novices, I see a need to always attract new drivers. Where we seem to have the biggest problem with attendance is at Brooksville. Maybe we need to reduce the entry fee by $5 for novices for their first 5 events.

I'm not seeing a difference. Since March, we've been running between 35 and 45 entrants regardless of site. January (SPC) and February (Brooksville) were a bit larger. I also don't see the price as a deterent -- $30 is barely a tank of gas these days. I think attendence changes are more due to the fact we didn't post event notices anywhere except the FAST website for much of the year.

Another would be to present awards at the completion of the event, at least for the novice classes and go a little deeper in presenting awards. Awards are given based on the number of entries in a class. Unless you have at least 6 or more in a class, only one or two awards deep are given.

As long as we keep subdividing the classes, they're not going to get more than 4-6 deep.

Some clubs will give a token dash plaque to all entrants which depicts that day's event. Maybe when they are talking about a two day event, such as the one at Brooksville in Oct., charge a little more and include a tee shirt. You need to pre-enter so just request the person's shirt size.

Not a bad idea...this used to be pretty common at one time. And I know 3/4 of my T-shirts are from autocross events.