I think its absolutely going to scare people away. The question is, is that a bad thing or a good thing? It really depends on how you look at it. KOH is the toughest UTV race on the planet, it should be big and scary. You got to sack up to take it on!! Now, the negative is if it kills car counts to the point that Cole drops the class altogether. I am hoping that it motivates racers that competed this year as well as others who didn't race to say that they want to take on the most difficult race in the world!
My question is this. How many of those who raced KOH are going to race the rest of the Ultra 4 series? Dave said that UTV's are welcomed at all rounds now of Ultra 4 racing.
We have raced KOH for three years now. The last two years, we entered two cars, and I agree that last year was too easy and maybe this year was either a little too difficult for the time allowed, or that we needed more time.
We have no intentions of running any other Ultra 4 races this year.
We look forward to KOH, and will probably do it again next year. However, it will probably be in just one car, and we will build another to pre-run.
If I had to guess, I would think there will be less entries next year. A lot depends on how they set up the race next year, if there is a next year. It appears a lot of the EMC guys don't want us out there at the same time as they are. Without them, the publicity we would get would probably revert to previous years where we really got none.
It will be interesting to see what Dave does.