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Breakdown of Road
Series Race Entrants By the Number of Road Series Races They Ran |
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| Number of races run during the year | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | |||||
| Entrants | % | Entrants | % | Entrants | % | Entrants | % | ||
| This number of entrants ran only one series race all year | 1 | 783 | 39.9 | 685 | 35.6 | 714 | 38.3 | 603 | 34.4 |
| This number of entrants ran two series races during the year … on average 44% of the runners in any race only run two series races all year. | 2 | 157 | 8.0 | 118 | 6.1 | 121 | 6.5 | 136 | 7.8 |
| 3 | 39 | 2.0 | 51 | 2.6 | 39 | 2.1 | 49 | 2.8 | |
| This number of entrants ran four races during the year (etc down) | 4 | 21 | 1.1 | 17 | 0.9 | 23 | 1.2 | 23 | 1.3 |
| 5 | 27 | 1.4 | 36 | 1.9 | 18 | 1.0 | 22 | 1.3 | |
| 6 | 14 | 0.7 | 12 | 0.6 | 13 | 0.7 | 15 | 0.9 | |
| 7 | 23 | 1.2 | 11 | 0.6 | 27 | 1.4 | 16 | 0.9 | |
| 8 | 9 | 0.5 | 10 | 0.5 | 11 | 0.6 | 18 | 1.0 | |
| 9 | 12 | 0.6 | 13 | 0.7 | 11 | 0.6 | 10 | 0.6 | |
| 10 | 4 | 0.2 | 7 | 0.4 | 5 | 0.3 | 2 | 0.1 | |
| 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | |
| This number of entrants ran twelve races during the year (etc up) | 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.1 | 7 | 0.4 | 5 | 0.3 |
| 13 | 5 | 0.3 | 10 | 0.5 | |||||
| Total individual runners | 1094 | 975 | 991 | 900 | |||||
| Adding the number in the 2008 entrants column shows that 1094 individuals accounted for 1963 race entries [1963 = (1x783)+(2x157) etc. 979 individuals ran three or less races and accounted for 1214 race entries115 individuals ran four or more races and accounted for 749 race entries | Total race entries | 1963 | 1925 | 1865 | 1751 | ||||
| 979/1214 | 854/1074 | 874/1073 | 788/1022 | ||||||
| 115/749 | 121/851 | 117/792 | 112/729 | ||||||
| If all of the three races or less runners were to run one more race, the yearly race entries total would increase by 979. If all of the four races or more runners did that the number would only increase by 110 entrants. (110 as 5 already ran max.) | |||||||||