The Christmas songs have already been heard for at least a month, the weather has turned cold and frosty, and another club racing season has drawn to a close. That can only mean one thing: Autosport has got its calculator out once again and produced our annual feature looking at club racing entries over the past year!
After poring over the data, the headline for 2024 has to be that it was a very mixed picture. Of the 128 English and Welsh series (we do not include Scottish, Irish or Northern Irish categories in this comparison since they have a far more limited pool of competitors to draw from), exactly half suffered a drop in their average grid size this season. And that is a clear sign of the challenges many organisers faced in drumming up support this year. Of the other half, only 31% of series grew during 2024, while the remaining 19% stayed exactly the same.
