Well there are about 30 pre 89 bikes and about 10 F1 bikes in the current entry list.
I don't believe that the Vic Club discourages F1 bikes - we actually spent a considerable amount of time and discussion on trying to come up with ways of equalizing track time including things like running F1 and F2 together, having "bracket races" where bikes where lumped together by lap times. We eventually came up with the current scenario and F1 bikes are allocated a few more laps as they get them done quicker
The recent addition of BEARS to the F2 grid was done due to a low F2 numbers and some lobbying by BEARS riders. About 4 of them from the existing F1 entries, 2 from other classes and 1 that would not otherwise be racing (I think ?)
The low entries in F2 suggest that track time is not the issue as F2 bikes can double their fun quite cheaply.
I don't know what we can do to encourage people to move to F1/Superbike/
The motivation for Guys like Choppa and Craig to do winter club racing ? Dunno I beleive that in 2009 when Stroudy did most of the winter series was because he really wanted to get himself sorted for the Nationals and the (then new) Honda team the same.
I know I personally would not want to race a superbike I can get enough adrenaline and sticky undies from my modestly tuned 675 ( not to say I wouldn't mind doing a few laps on one just to see what 180 hp felt like on the straight bits. )
I believe the clubs aspirations are quite high - and quite varied as are the club members - we all agree that getting youngsters into bike racing is a good first step.
The club's only real income is from the quite low membership fee and entry fees for Race meetings so keeping the club solvent is a major part of the exercise
So keeping the numbers up on the grid is vital - we would LOVE to add more superbikes but not at the expense of the rest of the club members. I don't know how many F1 racers there are actually in the club.
Interestingly at the MNZ road racer's forum it was revealed that entry numbers for Suberbikes/600's in this years Nationals was actually UP !
DISCLAIMER:
Although I am on the Vic Club committee I hold no office and these are my personal opinions and NOT those of the Club.
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