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Empty Series

08.01.2019 - The last thing I want to do is keep repeating the same old problem... But... Right now, season series are looking worse than ever, and it's a problem that has steadily grown year on year.

As of writing this press release, the following series are not full... (Empty seats in brackets)

Indy Jr (3)
NASCAR (3)
Formula 2 (2)
SuperbFormula (1)

Though, a series of these kinds of prestige, a few empty seats is a given...

DTWS (4)
911 Supervisor (5)
World GT (7)
World TC (9)
Euro TC (14!)
Benelux TC (10!)
Portugal TC (3)
Russia TC (10)
Supercars (2)
Turismo Carratera (8)
Stock Car Brasil (2)

F3 Majors are averaging 5 empty seats
F3 Regionals are mostly 8 or 9
Even in F3 Nationals, the first real step on a driver's ladder, only 2 of 14 series are full.

I know Moto is new and niche, so I haven't included them... But as of right now, Moto 2 will be running a half field at best in Season 31. Only ten seasons ago, it was expected to have 35+ applications per series, especially in F3

For me, and I know this has been said so so many times before as a preference, but is it time (before it snowballs further) to allow for managers to have second drivers?

I know the logistics of this could be a nightmare, and it is no simple thing to implement. But if new managers are scarce, we need to be proactively keeping the existing managers enthused, filling up series, mixing up the driver scales and bumping up the active numbers.

This is not a master plan, and I know Devs work hard to keep the game moving along! But two driver managers (and the potential for teams there-after) is a long running debate that comes around very often.

If this "please can we have two drivers!" Debate has been dismissed or written off by Devs already for whatever reason, i haven't seen it. Apologies if so.