Originally Posted by
Stan Clayton
At the risk of irritating you, Mike, I would just remind you that the title of this thread is "FA @ 2022 Runoffs". Read it again. Say the words out loud if you need to. Then answer your own question.
I remind the readers that the SCCA National Championships started in 1964 with an invitational race at Riverside, California that served as the model for the next year's first 'Runoffs' at Daytona. Before that there were Regional champions and presumably Divisional ones, but no uncontested nat'l championships or champions. With the spread of SCCA all over the country in the late 40s and throughout the 50s the itch started to hold a national championship, culminating in today's Runoffs. So yes, there it is. The answer to everything SCCA IS the Runoffs. The "100 or so other races" are just the annual buildup to the Big Show.
Don't blame me, Mike. I didn't create it and I don't have any power over it. It's just the way it is, and I've always tried to get the best deal I could for the classes I have an interest in.
Good. You've got that off your chest. Now let it go.
Why can't they? Simple. F1000 failed to make the participation requirements of the time to remain a nat'l class. And when faced with relegation I, and a lot of other folks argued that merging into FA was better than the slow death of relegation. We begged the BoD to merge us, and I'm glad they did. Otherwise both classes would be gone today.
Want to help? Enter some more nat'l races.
It didn't happen " at a moment's notice", it took two years for F1000 to go under. And where was I? I was there to beg the CRB and BoD to merge FB into FA rather than lose its National status. Be glad I was.