| The dropping of rounds was included when not only large distances were involved but also when the amount of rounds went beyond one per monthly pay packet, after all it is promoted as a budget series.
The difference a couple of extra meetings makes is around £1000 for most people so £1200 before tax has to be earned. This year it was 3 rounds over the ideal so a extra £1800 before tax had to be found.
Not sure where dropping 7 races in the original calendar equals 2 rounds as it would have been possible to drop Oulton and both summer Cadwell rounds and still have another to drop, of at least drop two meetings plus either 1 or 2 extra races depending on if you dropped Oulton or not.
Also dropping 4 races is not the equivalent of dropping one round, it maybe going forward from this point but in what has gone before it would be a round and a third.
26 from 33 is 78.79 %
20 from 26 is 76.92 % difference from originally planned is 1.8648 % less
21 from 26 is 80.77 % difference from originally planned is 1.9813 % more
making the dropping of 6 races from 26 closer to what had been planned
Next year we will hopefully not be in a position where there are two many rounds (hoping for 8) or have to travel from one of the country to the other, so then we can go back to having it as all rounds count
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