British Winter Open Championship 6th/7th Feb 2016
 

British Winter Open Championship

BRCA 10th Off-Road
2016 British Winter Open Championship
6th / 7th February 2016

Winter 2015/16:
Many clubs hold their Winter Series of events through the winter months. Check around at your clubs to see what’s been hosted in your areas. Many racers turn into what I call fair weather racers and move into the Indoor Season events. Many clubs up and down the country have indoor venues and there is a lot of racing on carpet with man made jumps and other features.

The 2016 BRITISH WINTER OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP:
The BRCA 10th Section run a prestigious one off event called the British Winter Open Championship.
This year the date is 6th/7th of February. The 2WD event will be run on Saturday the 6th and the 4WD event on Sunday the 7th.
A perfectly timed event, that sees the racers compete with their new rides and certainly great preparation towards the forthcoming season.

Hosts of the 2016 event:
The club is situated in the Moulton College where it has grown to attract racers from all over the country for club night racing and at its popular winter series. Even racers from Europe pay ‘Stone’ as it’s known, a visit.
The club hosted this event (BWOC) back in 2013 where it did a fabulous job. Now we are back and the club is as excited as ever in holding a great event. Matt Owen the Chairman of the club is probably one of the most passionate organisers in our sport and with him at the forefront, we are more than confident of an amazing weekend for the British Winter Open Championships (BWOC).

The Track and Surface:
The surface for the BWOC will be Astro Turf. A high grip blue Astro.
As usual the club always has some very demanding jumps and jump sequences along with some slippery corners just to keep your attention on a demanding lap.
We are all looking forward to this great event.

Controlled Tyre
The 2016 BWOC permits only two types of tyre for the rear axle.
The permitted rear tyres for 2wd and for 4wd are :-
Schumacher Mini-Spike (Original & Mk.2) and Ballistic Buggy Mini-Spike.
Front tyres are a free choice.
Compound and quantity used is not restricted.

Event Information
Event schedule:
This event will have 2 practice sessions, 4 rounds and finals for all. If you manage to get into that prestigious A Final, then it will be 3 legs for those guys to decide the BWOC Champion of 2016 in 2WD. The same method the next day for 4WD.
The doors at Silverstone normally open up around 6.30-6.45am
Practice session will start no later than 8.00am in heat order. Be ready to race by 7.45am if you are in the early heats.

Silverstone and BRCA Personnel:
Of course like any club; there are so many people to mention.
Lots and lots of people behind the scenes make these events happen. The usual suspects will be involved for the event to do what they do best.
Like mentioned before, Matt Owen once again heading up the ‘Stone’ team to pull the event together.
The below will be trackside helping with the event organisation. Along with others from the Silverstone committee and a number of club members.
Matt Owen
Paul Upton
Lee Romang (commentator)
Colin Buck
Sonia Mellett
Simon East
George Carter
And many more that I don’t know as yet
The BRCA crew headed by our Chairman Paul Worsley that will have his Team of personnel that actually run the timing, schedules, refereeing etc., just like at our National events.

Entries’ from abroad
We welcome all entries from across the water and we would love to see you at this event. This is an event that is sanctioned BRCA so it is a must that you hold a BRCA members license to compete. This can easily be done for a small fee of £17. The licence is valid for the whole year so you can compete at other sanctioned BRCA events too. Please visit this URL to optain your licence: http://www.britishradiocarassociation.co.uk/join

Pitting
Power is supplied by the club but you must bring extension leads.
Please bring table and chairs. Any racers from abroad will be catered for either by their own Team or the club.

Booking in and fees:
Entry fee is £15 for each class.

Important info: Booking in opens on the Monday the 21st of December at 7.00pm – Spread the word as it’s a first come first serve scenario.
You must pay for your entries otherwise no space.
It is expected that spaces will go extremely quickly and little doubt that this event will be full.
Please mark the booking in date in your diaries – 21/12/2015 7.00pm – Thank you
Book in through www.brca10thoffroad.co.uk and go to booking in on the menu

Some Videos of the Silverstone infrastructure:
An interesting little video of how the Silverstone club do their business – a great watch!

‘Stone’ Promo. Video: www.vimeo.com/79581002

2013 2WD BWOC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjI60B9zqF0

2013 4WD BWOC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-NyzXT876w

Feb 2015 BWOC results:
Expect these guys to be on show this year too

2wd podium
1. Lee Martin
2. Neil Cragg
3. Tom Cockerill

4wd podium
1. Neil Cragg
2. Lee Martin
3. Craig Collinson

EDITED - New booking in time
 

Just a reminded so you all know the booking in time :)

Important info: Booking in opens on the Wednesday the 23rd of December at 7.00pm – Spread the word as it’s a first come first serve scenario.
You must pay for your entries otherwise no space.
It is expected that spaces will go extremely quickly and little doubt that this event will be full.
Please mark the booking in date in your diaries – 23/12/2015 7.00pm – Thank you
Book in through www.brca10thoffroad.co.uk and go to booking in on the menu

The above has been edited - new booking in time

No, I'll be watching starwars..........

Can I ask why ?

Can we book in tonight still ?

Hi Tony

I just booked in, but the 4wd paypal basket item shows up as £822,115.76 so i added 2x the 2wd basket items.

Who should i contact to confirm this with?

Thanks

I have also done the same

I'm trying to book in but the link isn't live?

link
 

Im refreshing the link and it isn't working:cry:

BWOC
 

how do you book in

the link isn't working for me either:(

Booked in payed for 2 wd but 4wd drive was £8000000 ish what do we do?

BWOC
 

link not working for me either

http://www.brca10thoffroad.co.uk/bri...-championship/

scroll down a bit.

4wd entry fee is now correct apparently

Booked in a few minutes ago, but the 4wd paypal basket item shows up as £822,115.76 so I also added 2x 2wd basket items.

Hope this doesn't cause an issue Tony.

Just double checked the links and paypal basket items and seems all links etc. are fixed and working now :thumbsup:

BWOC
 

cool just done

over subscribed in 25 mins......really?

Got the same reply too :thumbdown: spent five minutes trying to complete the form on my Android phone to no avail :mad: switched the laptop on and managed to get my lad in though.

I'd like to see a time stamp booking in system, I think Stotfold and DMS do it

BWOC
 

Wow!!

How do you know if you have managed to get an entry?

Have received a email but quite confusing - only want a 2WD entry but it says 2WD entry on one but 4WD on other

Just like to check

Got the same thing

I assume if successful then you would of been invited to pay. I suspect this is a bug.

Guessing there were only so many 2wd spots, so when people have added two 2wd (to get around the 4wd pricing issue) its taken all the spaces?

Fingers crossed :)

payment
 

need some help...... I had a go at entering, website says over subscribed in 2 and 4wd... so fair enough..... but the email i received is giving me the option to pay up saying "please remember to send payment if you have not done it already" I clicked on the link in the email and I can pay up for both classes if i like. someone tell me not to do it as im pretty sure its some sort of mistake as i dont want to send money if theres no space?
sorry if im sounding stoopid.... my first time booking in via the BRCA website for any kind of race meeting!

I'm with you on that...... Do we pay or not?.... If we don't pay, have we missed our chance to get on some sought of reserve list?

Guessing from the distinct lack of reply that's a no then :bored:

This was posted this morning on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/brca10thoff...99921953522916

Reply
 

Ah thanks for the Facebook link, it's a bit vague if I'm reading it correctly, it doesn't answer anything about if you should pay or not if you received the email when at the same time the website says it's 'fully subscribed' , but I'm going to assume not anyway. Cheers for the help.

I have just been sent this link:

http://www.brca10thoffroad.co.uk/bwo...-list-2wd-4wd/

I've just been told by a friend to look on here and have a read!
I stopped on the way back from jobs in the evening booking went live, entered,
And got a reply saying "event over subscribed" but a few hours later received a payment request so paid!
Apart from Christmas Day and Boxing I've worked long hours all over Christmas.

And now reading the list I'm 51st reserve in 2wd
And 4th in 4wd

And my payment will be returned in due course ?

No message or email from anyone telling me of any problems.

Really !! WTF!

Reserve #5.... Doh!

You guys know this is nothing to do with the club right?

The booking side (and associated issues) are handled by the BRCA, not Silverstone.

Bwoc
 

Yeah , silverstone are just the hosts , nothing to do with the organising of the meeting , we just supply an awesome venue and an amazing race track

I support Silverstone club 110%, this unfortunately will put a grey cloud over the Silverstone club (by people who don't know them).
I do, and can honestly say the guys behind the scenes at Silverstone go above and beyond that extra mile to make there race meeting's the best they can possibly be.
There winter series is always fully/over booked, which says enough.
I'm not pointing a finger at anyone ! Especially not Silverstone !

But this really is a mess! Sorry if I offend anyone but it is.

As I received a payment request, thinking that I had a place?, I paid the request, and booked a hotel room to make sure I got it at the early booking prices.

Ah well....
I expect I'll turn up and glue up tyres for my friends who are racing.

Me too, have paid for myself 2wd and my lad 2wd and 4wd, booked the hotel for two nights and have found we're both on the reserve list for 2wd. I had a feeling that I was on the reserve list however when I booked Callum in I wasn't given any indication that he hadn't got in.

It is an awesome venue we were lucky to attend in 2013 and had a great day there! Not being critical of the BRCA but at the time booking in was done from memory via a website called central booking and was both transparent and easy to use.

I am in the same boat myself, 70+ on the 2wd reserves list and all paid up.

Just wanted to make sure that people understand that this is not the clubs doing!

Who on earth wrote that Facebook post?! "The BWOC die to good publicity..." :confused:

I was more concerned with the lack of SSL on the entry form, as we've all just sent our name, address and phone number over an unencrypted session to a website we can't verify the identity of. What makes it worse is that anyone who wanted to capture traffic knew exactly when to listen because of the defined opening time for entries, making it easy to grab everything in one lump to go through at their leisure :(
It's the same on the BRCA membership renewal page, no SSL - although arguably less of a security issue given the spread out nature of people making submissions.

I really appreciate the effort the BRCA is making to embrace things like online entry to events rather than faffing around with cheques etc, but it feels a bit rushed/not ready at the moment.