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To give you guys a feeling of how small time and invisible rally is in America in general and in California in particular, the state is long, and like many real long conutries the North and the South are considered distant strange places with nothing in common.
In "Northern" California, in the San Francisco area according to wilipedia: The city is also the financial and cultural hub of the larger San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan area, with a population of 7.4 million. Last weekend a regional event was just held and there were a total of 12 entries: Reg 1 Results It was a friend who won in a very modest Golf MkII, another friend who was second on my own suspension.

Southern California , again from wiki The Census Bureau also defines a wider region based on commuting patterns, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside Combined Statistical Area (CSA), more commonly known as the Greater Los Angeles Area, with an estimated population of 17,786,419.[4 17.7 million..
Typically they might have 20-maybe 30 entries. Most extremely modest levels of prep...many near stock.


There is simply no the numbers of people in the sport at even the most rudimentary level to support more than just fun events...

The guy above is right, Canada, especially the nearer to "New France" aka Quebec you get, they better the event, and there are even spectators at 'Baie de Chaleurs" , but as much as I enjoyed canadian events when i did them, it is dreaming to think the events could ratchet up and cooperate..and pull off a real event with 100-180 entries.