" the powers at be appear to want yet another class to fragment the scene."
Define powers that be.
The MSA has regulations that states that anyone who wants to introduce a new class can do so provided that they get an 'authority' to do so. The proposal then has to get past a sporting committee who identify whether there is some reason why the class cannot go ahead.
In the UK the two main karting associations are AbKC and NKRA. AbKC seems to sponsoir most of the classes, the NKRA sponsors Formula and Junior Blue.
The sporting committee aren't there to decide whether they want a new class or not, but whether some 'unsporting' incentives have been added to the class. Hence the Super Cadet class is not going to have its own Super One class in its first year because it was felt that it would be undue competition on other classes. (Alternatively, the numbers would be so low that the the sport would not benefit from having to scratch a 'prestige' race series).
Nor is the number of classes a problem. There are now more people involved in karting than ever before but the majority do it outside the aegis of the MSA. You only have to look at the growth in commercial tracks and series and the hundreds of thousands of people who regularly participate in a 'Hire and Drive" race as well as 'real kart' races at tracks like Strubby and Matchams. They do it like that because teh MSA does not cater for them and others do.
Limiting the number of classes is merely going to place even more people outside the MSA aegis. If the class doesn't gain followers, it will collapse of its own accord.
Indeed, some people see big grids and the importance some people attach to winning as being the biggest turn off from continuing in karting, it's the cost and expense of constant repairs, the specialist equipment and keeping up with the Jones that deters many people.
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