surely the Kerrick round has more Cachet than a state meeting, and any chance to run at the best circuit in Australia should be utilized !!
One of the problems Mopar, and this is by no means the only problem, just one of many, is that our state championship consists of 3 Island rounds. One of which is next weekend (2 weeks prior to the Kerrick round) and the final is Island Magic, which is 3 weeks after the Kerrick round. That's 3 rounds in 5 weeks at the Island. Now for me to run at all 3 (and i'm on negative budget and live 45 minutes away from the track) it's still gonna cost a BARE MINIMUM of $6,000 to run those 3 meetings. That's just for fuel, entries, accomodation and a barbie lunch with a couple of cans for dinner. Tyres all s/h courtesy of Mr Camm..(thanks Deano, if you didn't know before I was stealing your tyres, you do now).. Now, for someone like Neil or Dean, you'd be looking closer to 20k - 30k for those 3 meetings to have a read hot go.
Now I know it's exciting to drive around the Island, but you can do a lot of other exciting things with 30k in 5 weeks. B)