Hi Cutting 42 - cheers for getting involved.
Stu - No offence taken just finding the apparent negativity a little suprising. I think maybe where you and others are getting stuck is your focusing on the local results too closely. On there own they are of little value as local trends will apply, but once we have the results for 50 clubs or more then we can start to take some averges and see what is really succeeding on a wider scale.
I think the way i have asked for the information to be listed now is probably not ideal as it is still not specificly related to results enough and maybe still allows too much opinion rather than results.
Shifting back to my more advanced idea of compiling a wide range of actual club results (ignoring the driver details) into an actual unofficial "Manufacturers championship".
As I said earlier, if we could get as many clubs as possible around the country to send us/input the data on the manufacturer/model of cars (and possibly tyres and other equipment) of the top 10 finishers at each event we could then assign a points system (10 for first down to 1 for 10th) and get a real time view as the season progresses of the cars (and possibly tyres) success on a national level.
If this could be updated online regularly giving each manufacturer/model (and possibly tyres and other equipment
) overall national championship positions/ranking as well as possibly positions/rankings at each individual club/venue. Think F1 manufacturers championship but with the results compiled from the years club results.
What i'm really looking to do is create a tool to guage all the different cars and equipments abilty based purely on results/capabilities in a more scientific way. Although I think it could actually be both a usefull, fun and intruging tool but ain its own right a "Manufacturers Championship" could be very interesting to follow what ever the why's and where for's of the results. To be honest just the debate why the particular results arrise could lead to some very intersting threads.
Or another idea
Would be for the BRCA section to run somthing like this along side the normal "drivers" championships but just basing it on the results from the Nationals. Again you could use a point scoring system something along the lines of the F1 Manufacturers championship. Something like this should be quite easy to setup really and requires very minimal extra work involved by the host club with them simply noting the equipment of the point scoring cars and uploading it into an online database at the end of the event. This would then calcutate the current scores and championship positions of each car or piece of equipment.