First let me say I don't care one way or the other, and I cast my vote for keeping numbers 1-10 and freeing up the rest. That to me would seem logical, since most people only care about the top 10 anyway.
It seem pointless to me to have numbers 1-25 reserved yet never used. Just look back in the results for El Mirage and see how many of these numbers are used each year. This year at all of the lakes meets conducted so far only #1 and #1B have been used. In the 2006 El Mirage season from what I can find no one used any of the numbers 1-25 on any car or bike entry forms. I could not look back any further since the archives for El Mirage are not working.
Times change. Most people want to be associated by their car or bike number they end up having for years, not a number they have been awarded for one year. Most people look up friends and competitors vehicles in the results by the vehicle number they are familiar with, not one they were just given for a year.
This is the first poll I have done, and it has been fun. I will do more in the future.
Tom G.