Check your championship regs and you may well find that, if correctly written, any round that includes an exclusion from either a single race or the entire meeting must be counted. The only occasion where a zero score can be used as a dropped round is when a competitor has been unable to attend a meeting through prior commitment or ill health. Generally it is accepted that you are allowed to be ill or take a holiday that clashes with a meeting and use this as your missed round. By dropping a non attendance meeting you are not at any advantage as you must then count every score from the rest of the season, hence a bad heat or engine failure will hurt more than if you attended every meeting and could then choose the score to drop. Therefor by attending every meeting you enhance your scoring potential, it is certainly no advantage to have to score a zero under that ruling but it does punish the driver who is excluded due to poor driving standards or illegal kit and must score any exclusion form championship meetings.
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