To first make one thing clear, FSR's current main issue isn't racing itself, nor broadcasts or grid sizes, it's just the organization. ISR Club is not the problem as such either, the concept is to have something greater than an average league and it worked, once a time. What happened now is there are teams that have been too long in FSR due to the Club licensing system. As was said, a big part of team owners are basically absent but the team is still part of FSR WC because of the lifetime license. And to make matters worse team owners basically decide alone about 50% of FSR, including race calendar and rules. There were symptoms of this issue from many years back, but this year it has concretized. Obviously no new team will buy a license for the sky-high price requested by the old teams, so new teams can only enter with remaining "loan" licenses from Club, which are for one year. This is not a healthy situation for competition, the whole system needs to be renewed which will be one of the most difficult processes FSR has faced. Needless to say, it requires a strong president to drive these changes through and requires co-operation from team owners. It's a difficult situation, but I have some naive hope left still. It all depends on finding the person to do this.
Then lets say we do the most important race which is the World Championship. Simply post a report in the media forum and we can promote it. Easy piecey
It sounds simple but there is no one that bothers doing this over a season in my experience. I have written FSR race previews for 5+ years and some reviews since 2007. I really did not want to do this role except for the first year. It's a comical situation that I still have to do it after all these years, especially when it was same under 3 or 4 different presidents. So the issue is wider, we can't find people that would work through the entire season, most give up after a couple of races. Well, Patel does regular post-race press conferences, which is a start, and obviously it's nice if Adrian can help, even though I saw no activity on FSR press Skype channel since around May. Anyway, where are the rest? The press issue dates so far back that I can't see many new solutions, so I just wish good luck to the next president fixing it.
The guys who do regular work for FSR this year are: Christian (Fantasy league + FSR manager), Patel, Sam (broadcasts) and the directors. Situation in that sense is exactly same as last year. If you are willing to join the awesome club of regular workers, please inform me. I'm not going to remind someone every time to do this and that, I do it quicker myself than having to remind someone constantly. This is what has been happening this year and happened year before with Johannes, that's why I'm the person controlling articles, mod updates, COA, tracks, FSR server, social media, website, payments, support, forum administration, etc etc. Obviously this is not very functional and burns one person out. It also means I cannot focus on every area as well as would be necessary.
Regarding the schedule of internal proceedings, there is one month until president candidate nominations start, but of course anyone is free to mention his interest to me now already. Before that, from idea by Greco, I will attempt to organize a Skype chat with all license owners and discuss the Club future.