Michael Hoyt

I know the intent is to limit cherry picking BAR points, but its quite

a bit more complicated than that.



First of all, small fields don't always guarantee weak competition and

easy pickin' of points. We've had Thursday Nighter races down here that

may have had very small fields, but included Steve Larsen, Maurice

Torano, Josh Conner, Glen Gann, and Richard Hogan (and those were the

slow guys <g>). Points there are well earned.



Second, anyone who lives away from the Eugene to Portland corridor (say

in Medford) has to really want to race to be even remotely competitive

in the BAR. We have to travel 6 hours to get to race 30 minutes at the

State Hill Climb. How about changing the system by adding a travel time

multiplier. We could multiply BAR points by the hours it takes to get

to a race and then tally them. Maybe then a race like the Mayor's Cup,

a race that had a $10,000 purse, could survive.



Last, but not least. This will really screw promoters of smaller races

and as an indirect effect, the people who want to race, but aren't hard

core enough to travel many hours to do it. It will have a negative

effect on rural racing that is certainly not intentional and far more

damaging to the sport than "fairness" in the BAR points race.



Please reconsider.



Mike Hoyt

Cycle Analysis

Jacksonville