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I fail to see how it's possible to have a discussion about super one without mentioning money, given that the primary reason most people like myself would never contemplate it is purely because it is impossible to compete on anything less than a budget most people club racing cannot afford. Cadet racing at super one is team dominated for obvious reasons - relatively inexperienced (cadet) racing parents can't reasonably expect to call upon or for that matter acquire the wealth of data a well run team can and the result is that most people don't want to pay to embarrass themselves by turning up to watch their driver get absolutely destroyed. So I don't really see that regionalising the series by itself would actually make much of a difference. If super one is a business, as previously stated, is it really optimised in favour of making a profit? Is the model scalable? If the entrants are truly customers, what is the product or service they are purchasing? Would the average super one entrant consider themselves a customer or a competitor? How about this as an idea. Firstly cap the optional expenditure of each class/competitor to a sensible level per championship. This was discussed but never implemented in F1 (budget cap) but in F1 there are regulations designed to prevent teams from unlimited on track testing. Why can't something similar be done in karting to attract drivers to have a go at a national championship? If you want bus loads of kids to turn up, the sport has to be accessible to all and not just to the elite few, who most kids could care less about anyway. Secondly, have dedicated qualifying rounds held across the country where drivers can battle it out until a predetermined number of finishers from the finals are the only drivers allowed to compete in the championship series, which is where I believe regional rounds could actually work. This allows the maximum number of entrants the opportunity to compete instead of those who can afford to travel the length and breadth of the country and the drivers would have to earn their chance to race with the best. The idea of a grand final at pfi is exciting because it focuses people on karting as a sport in its own right, which we all love and not as an expensive elitist pastime which a lot of ordinary people can't relate to and have no interest in. I admit that my knowledge of karting and the karting industry is limited but to increase interest it has to have mass appeal. Maybe karting itself does have mass appeal and as someone else pointed out its us, the MSA licence holders that are in the minority and we need turn our attention to why this is.
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