Here is my position on all this:
As a member of the media that tries to cover all this racing, I obviously want as much information as possible. The reason the media wants the information is because the readers are interested in that information -- as much information as possible about the sailors as well as about the boats they are sailing.

It is not practical to include all that information in the actual results, because the spread sheet already takes up so much space on a page if there are a lot of races in an event.

However, it would be great to have another printout that just gives the final position, the final points for that position, the names of the sailors, the boat brand, the sail brand(s), and the home town (or port) and state of each of the sailors.

This would give everybody who is on the outside looking in a pretty good picture of the trends in that particular formula class. It would be supplementary information on the class website, with a link to it for all those who are interested.

And when the class sends a story and results to the media, this supplementary information should also be sent.

If the media have this information from the source, they will have the facts from the class, and maybe the class won't have to worry so much about specific manufacturers getting self-serving press releases published.

Going a step further, it would be great to have little bios on each of the sailors in a given formula class, to give the public an idea of their experience sailing in general and with this class in particular. And then a link from their name in the results to their bio.

I know it sounds like a of extra work for someone, but once you have most of the information inputted about all of the class members, it is just a matter of repeating, except when they change boats or sails or move to a different geographic location.

This all is the kind of information that was available to the media and to the public for the Worrell 1000, and it was wonderful.