Club's policy sounds fine to me (atleast that description you provided)
No it isn't, according to what you desire. High-powered cars that are difficult to drive are
not inclusive or accessible to rookie drivers, nor do they provide close, high-quality racing. Case in point, Sunday's Gr5 event. The vast majority of people were spread out across the track, going door-to-door was suicide, and numerous people spun and slid their way off the track even without help from anyone else. The same can be said every time we run high-powered cars such as the FR X-17, P2, GTR 1/2, etc. Attrition rates are always higher in such events too. These things are fact, and that is why running such cars is frowned upon by upper management. So yeah, I'm already going
against general policy when I run them at all, as are other organisers in their respective clubs. And yes, we are being moaned at for doing so.
In contrast, the WTCR's prove every single week that they are capable of providing the closest, most exciting racing we have in this or any other club. Half the time there is less than one second covering P1 to P10 in qualifying, and door-to-door racing is a regular occurrence that doesn't result in game over for one of the drivers. What other classes provide similar experiences? NSUs. WTCCs. Audi TTs, both varieties. What's the common theme here? They're all "slower", more forgiving cars.
With all that said, I really don't care what type of racing people want. I love the "fast" cars myself, as you guys know. If the majority are in favour of something, I'll do it because otherwise what's the point? But right now, RD policy doesn't allow for the kind of thing the vocal minority are asking for, so that group of people will need to try and affect change. To do that, you post a mature, reasoned argument in the Paddock Club, not a pointless rant targeted at one day/event/club/person. Once you become a vocal
majority, there's a chance someone important will take notice.
I am getting pissed off with this "variety" bullshit though, quite frankly. As I have said on multiple occasions, we have three events per week, two of which never feature the same classes on consecutive weeks. Please explain how that is a lack of variety. We have a lot more variety here than in certain other clubs, I can tell you that now. I'm also getting fed up of people claiming it's the reason for low grids, when it clearly is not. One look at my race calendar proves that. The grids are similar
regardless of the class and track being used.
TLDR; if you guys want change, come up with some valid points and arguments, backed up with fact rather than BS, and make them heard in the Paddock Club. At least do me the favour of not posting it in event threads every week, because I can't do anything about it on my own and this kind of crap in said event threads is hardly going to make our club more appealing to new people, is it?