It’s not my job to make things work. That task belongs to people much smarter (and richer) than I.

It’s my job to point out when something stupid is happening and to suggest that somebody should do something about it.

Right now the stupidest thing is we are right in the middle of a tense, exciting championship, and there’s bugger all racing happening.

I’m not talking about what’s happening on the track. What’s happening there is as good as any V8 Supercar series I can remember. It’s fantastic.

I’m talking about having to wait the best part of a month between each V8 Supercar fix.

I know we have to fit around Channel 7 and its footy schedule. I get that because I’m a pretty keen footy fan myself (or I would be pretty keen except that I barrack for Richmond, which is about as rewarding as barracking for Toyota in Formula One). But COME ON! Waiting a month between getting my V8 Supercar fix is like a slow torture.

Frankly, it’s not good enough.

Let’s put the TV to one side to deal with the other main problem. The reality is 14 rounds is not enough for what amounts to the second or third biggest spectator sport in the country. And next year’s plan of 13 rounds plus a glorified exhibition race at the Australian Grand Prix is even worse.

What we’re looking at with that is losing a championship round at Winton or Eastern Creek – and we know which of those is more likely to be given the flick, don’t we. One is a big, expensive track in a capital city in what V8 Supercar Australia says is its single most important market, and the other is a quaint little track near a country town that just happens to be one of my favourite V8 Supercar events of the year. It don’t take Sir Isaac Newton to work that one out.

But here’s a novel idea. How about having more rounds instead of reducing the value we fans get out of the series. More races on TV, more chances to go to see them live. More, more, MORE!

The big problem is the teams – you know, those organizations that would have nothing to do if we didn’t tune in to the telly or fork over our dollars to go and watch them – reckon it’s too expensive to go to more rounds. They reckon they have a budget from sponsors to do 14 race meetings but it’s too expensive to do 15 race meetings.

We all know the teams want to do things to save money and, to its credit, TEGA is looking at ways to do that. I’m not going to tell them how to do that because we have experts working on that right now.

Let’s do the maths, though. There are three main types of expenses that go into racing: (1) the cost of the cars and the workshop and stuff, (2) the cost of development and (3) the cost of going to the race track and replacing bits that break. Only ONE of those would go up if we go to 15 rounds compared to 14, and even then it only goes up by seven per cent.

I’ve got a better idea. Let’s see if we can make the cars cheaper and development cheaper and see if we can save that seven percent there.

Who wins? Everybody. We get more races to watch, the sponsors get seven percent more coverage, and I get something else to look forward to watch on TV after Richmond loses again.

Fifteen rounds is not too many. The NASCARs in America do two and half times that much.