even after a thousand plus have pre-registered.
For the 2019 Pre-Reg there were 2,431 BRM 1000s and 1,617 LRMs in the prior (2018) year and these resulted in 1,990 pre-registrations at the end of the first 14 days (prior to 600 pre-reg starting). There is of course some overlap in the BRM 1000 and LRM groups and some greedy people who will have done multiple 1000s and / or LRMs so lets say 50% of the (obviously very keen) group pre-registers.
The BRM stats for 2022 have not yet been published so an unknown number of BRM 1000s but there were 2,857 LRMs in 2022, most of the difference from 2018 being 890 LELs, & 60 other UK LRMs, LEJOG etc and a few hundred extra in the rest of the world.
So if 2022 BRM 1000s are similar to 2018 then you might expect 2,600 pre-registrations from this first group, many in the first week (day?) but French non-FFCT persons can't pre-reg until the second week (21st).
Maybe the 890 LEL veterans will take some confidence from their achievement and will decide that PBP being much easier (1220 cf 1540kms) they will pre-reg en-masse and this will become known as the "British" PBP?
Can't see any separate counts yet for French / Non-French so those GE. 2500 / LE. 5500 quotas will likely be collated somewhere in the background and may effect pre-registrations later in the process ?