Hopefully in the future- you have to understand that its not just the SEHC thats new the entire region in new- this is the first year for SE NASA. Jim Pantas - the one who took on starting the new region is based out of NC. I'm not certain but would be willing to bet that the track selections were based on cost, as well as the fact that while the events are still a haul for some - current southeastern NASA racers will no longer HAVE to drive all the way to VA or PA to compete. The selected tracks are in balanced locations across the SE- with the exception of FL-sorry but truth is FL tracks are only convenient to those in FL so I'm not surprised that for the first season they chose to focus on all the other SE states to try to get participation #s up before asking people to drive all the way to FL. (And trust me as someone whos been driving an average of 8-9 hours each way-often more- to every event for the past 2 years I understand the gripe of not having an event in your state- even with SEHC/SE NASA we only have one, the Nashville event.)
Hopefully some FL events will happen next year (2005) but for now I wouldn't call the new SE region's schedule "weak" I mean come on we're running Road Atlanta!