BRCA Mid South Regionals - 2012
 

Just to keep everyone updated, we held the BRCA regioansl meeting tonight to decide all the dates and venues for the 2012 Mid South calendar. These are all subject to confirmation and will be announced officially on here on Monday somtime.

But for now there are 5 clubs set to host the events, these are;

DMS Model Car Club - Watford
HNMCC - Ware
SHRCCC - Surrey and Hants
Stotfold Model Car Club
T.O.R.C.H - Hampshire

The events are pencield in for 5 rounds of 2wd and 5 rounds of 4wd with your best 3 rounds to count, each club will host one round of each

More on Monday when we can confirm.........

No silverstone or eden park :(

Silverstone are unable to run on any other dates than those unvailable to us, Matt O or John S can fill you in more on this as they see fit to..

EPR is not in our region, it is in the South East as opposed to Mid South

You'll have to come and see me :woot:

Yeah sorry Darren, just realised eden park aren't in our area
Shame about silverstone but im sure all the other clubs will host excellent rounds :thumbsup:

Twice :woot::woot::woot: :D

Will do :D
Well done at area 51 btw, the truck was going well

Mr Boyle aka Alan B'stard!:D

Harsh, it was Matt as well if not more than me......

Lol :thumbsup:

I have mixed feelings on this line up to be honest. There are some fantastic tracks in that list, but the geographical locations makes me wonder whether it is actually 'my' region. I live in north Northants, so always assumed I would race in the region that included Silverstone, therefore the mid south. With that line up though I am now not so sure. Surrey is 2+ hours from me, Hampshire probably 3+.

There may be many people from various clubs thinking distance may be on the high side but my view is a simple one.

I would rather travel distance and be part of one of the strongest regions in the UK with great tracks rather than round the corner and sort of feel I want more.

All the clubs in our region have excellent personnel and I am sure this is a way forward to making the Mid-South the one to compete in.

Good luck to all the clubs - see you there

Looks an awesome line-up, bring it on!

You could look at other regions close to you and see if their tracks are more local as another option for 2012 regionals ?

Sadly when the country is divied up there are always people going to be in the extremes of the boundries. The midlands is split into two with Mid West and Mid East and for us, since the "bottom" of the UK is wider than the "middle" so to speak, the South is split into three, South West, South East and of course us in the Mid South. For that reason we take up the whole middle chunk of the south of the country and up to where the midlands starts and Northants does fall into this area.

The tracks will be good though as has been said and I am sure it will be as great a series as ever. Gutted to not see Silverstone in there myslef, their events are always top notch and last weekends Area 51 proved that too, and also that Telstar opted not to host any this year too, since that sounded really promising too from Matty. However, we have what we have and I am sure we are in for some great racing......... (all to be confirmed on Monday)

How to enter
 

I'm new to this how can I enter these events?

That's a good selection of tracks.

Yeah I decided that this year was too soon. We're currently searching for a permanent venue so hopefully next year with a couple of meetings under our belt we can put ourselves up for selection.

Deano, take a shufty at last years thread, http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61900 details will be much the same only the venues and dates will change.

Next week we may have confirmed dates & venues, DMS have online booking, a paper form will be downloadable. All the info you need will be here, soon.

You will need to have BRCA membership, approved batteries, motors etc.

At least you'll have a reason to come down to Torch now Matt :D

Al

Thanks mate I have brca And all the correct lipid motors etc

I'm sure all the clubs will host excellent events. Just hope I can get an "F" grade that isn't "F" Off :woot::woot::woot:

wow sure looks like we will be doing a few miles then :( sad not to see silverstone in the mix but s&h and torch are places i have never been

Regionals are now confirmed for the Mid South

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91517

Booking In is now Open too

www.dmsresults.co.uk

Thank you Darren :thumbsup:

Legal lists can be found here - http://www.brca.org/?q=content/homol...-updates/14218

Yes, lipos have to be approved, still waiting for 2012 list update for batteries, lipo sack/bag for charging.

Hi,

I have just booked in for regionals but there wasn't any option to pay?? Is this pay on day or am i missing something?

Hi Jay, with all our regions club you "pay on the day" you just have to pre-book.

I did notice that your name and a few others are flagged up in either blue or red, this will just be a carry over from last year and will mean that meetings were missed without notifying the relevnat club(s) before hand in due time. Those in blue, simply need to pay for the entry to the club in advance and they will take them off the "blue" list, those in red have sadly doen this more than once, they need to pay the host club of the next event the race entry up fornt AND the last race fee from the last race they missed too!! :( Once more when done they come off the "Red" list.

Hope that makes sense....

Ok so at torch round 1 i need to pay for that and silverstone that i missed last year?

If your name is shown in blue, no, just pay up fornt for TORCH only

If your name is shown in red, yes, you pay for TORCH and Silverstone (but to be red you must have missed more than one meeting, so Silverstone and one or more other)

Hi Darren,

How do you know which meeting you are being asked to pay for? i.e. which club to pay th emoney to?

I know I missed the F345 finals but had prepaid. Pretty sure I attended all the other ounds I entered but still seem to be in red on the list.

Hope you can help.

Mark

Hi Mark,

You pay ther club your "next" entry is going to (ie TORCH), the full amount (£20). The extra fees stay with that club, but then anyone who misses this TORCH round, their fees get paid to the next club on the calendar and so on, so it evens itself out over time.

I only provide the system for use, sadly I am not the "entry guru", I get handed a list by each club at the nd of each meeting of those who have not shown up and implemnet the changes on the site for them.

All I can tell you is that you raced at one 2wd rd last year (Herts) and 3 4wd rounds (Stotfold, Silverstone, DMS). The last meeting you raced at on the calendar was the 3rd July at DMS, so you would have been fine then. You will have been a no show at two out of three from Silverstone (17th July), Herts (31st July) and Stotfold (7th August) that you had entered and forgot about perhaps, but other than that I have no way of checking for you since last years entires have now all been deleted....

Hope that helps,

Darren

Not wrong about that, looks like i'll be doing more miles for my regional series than i would for the national series!? :confused:

Not me, I'm doing a different region this year :thumbsup:

i just need to do enough rounds in ANY region :woot:

Not complaining but it is mental!!!

and still not including a trip to sunny Swindon or Silverstone, next year :woot:

As I'm new to the regionals, I have just booked to do all the 4wd rounds (Mid-South). Once I submitted my entry, I was directed to the screen where you can view the driver list. From here I selected one-by-one each round and each time my name had R1 before it, but in black not the other colours. Does this stand for Reserve, can someone shed some light on this please. :confused:

Feom a PM I sent to someone last night....

Bascially anyone "new" to the sytem has to be approved, ie be proven they are a "real" entry/"real" person and not someone mucking around or spammer etc. This is done by a human (in this case me) and I go on the site once or twice a day to update....

Hope that helps,

Darren

Sorry am still confused as to if I am in for regionals?? do i pay at torch for missed rounds?