I think half the teams don't know week to week if they will make any of the races.

True statement for me! Being a young one man team and having to pay all the boat, race and maintenence bills with an average 9-5 job, I never know if I can afford to go racing until last minute. Yea I would love to be able to hit every race but I have a hard time trying to make just the Michigan races. I'm probably not the only small team in that situation. Smitty has always been extremely fair with travel and purse money. Isn't that bonus enough?

Frank
BAD NEWZ

Week to week we are day to day maybe hour to hour then we have to get to the race .:crazy:

Once again I must not have been clear on my intent. Bad title to the post. My driving desire is helping the race promoters and race org sell race sites. How do we the racers help them secure race sites and get the money need from these towns. They have to go to potential sponsors that pay to have us there. If they dont know what they are selling (boat count) they have a hard time explaining what someone is buying. Im most cases its a pure guess. If you sold your product (boats count) at work and it was less than what the customer(sponsor's) was expecting how hard would it be to resell that customer. IMO we are asking our promoters to put there names and reputations on the line to secure sites and we the racers have a problem with a letter of intent as to which races we can attend. This is my point.
How we might be able to achieve this is threw racer incentives. Just asking racers which races they are going to never has worked in the past. It is absolutely OK to just do 1 or 2 local races a year but some how the orgs need to know way in advance.
If Im rambling I will delete this thread. Im trying to move forward on a problem our sport has had for years. Nothing changes if you dont think there is a problem. Clearly IMO there is a problem do you?