Not Ranked
I just did a rough count of people who have done the nats with me over the last 10 years or so. While I know I have missed a few you can see that many QLDers either have no car/not involved anymore or are OS/away.
Cam Parsons - OS
Scotty H - No car
Geoff T - No car
Garry H - No car
Ash B - Not competing
Ron F - Not competing
Wazza - Not competing
Greg Q - Not competing
Yve and Chris - Not competing
Peter Ransom - No car
Denis Stone - Not competing
Wayne Proctor - Not competing
Eric Roth - No car
Mike Verner - OS
Mick Warnock - OS
Gary Sims - OS car being rebuilt
Then when you look at our current list of attendess
Paul
Me
Pete
Tony
Jim
Mic
Phil/Ros
You can see there's no newbies replacing those that have dropped away. Whether thats a reflection of club health, a sign of the times or other reasons is speculative but certainly there does seem to be a lack of NEW people wanting to attend from up here.
We could argue weather/distance etc but every name on the current list for 2017 has had more than their fare share of Nats weather and yet we still go.
From a grass roots perspective perhaps its just a sign of the times with time money and effort all playing a large factor in the choices we make. From my last CnC experience there are alot of cobra owners out there not club affiliated and perhaps that why.
All I can say is THANKS AGAIN to the NSWCCC for putting on another great event. Nothing bad about 50+ cars. Cant wait.
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