2012 Irish National Championship chat
 

The dates are now posted in the Official thread. Well done to the committee for organising what will be the biggest championship for many years.

Many long discusions have taken place over the last 2 months whilst formatting the series. Here are some of the key developments for 2012;

1. To ensure the largest possible entry at the events, to facilitate drivers who can only race one day a week, to ensure that an adequate amount of marshals are available at each event, to keep the amount of weekends used up by the championship to a minimum, and to minimise date conflicts with other high profile events/championships and after a lengthy consultation with the committees from some of the clubs participating - it was proposed and unanamously passed that 2wd and 4wd should take place on the same day. The timing of the events will be sympathetic to those running two classes with a small break both between 2wd and 4wd races and the end of each round.
2. To re-introduce Northern Ireland into the series and to promote the sport in the region, NIMCC (Ballymena) will host Round 2. The track (Astroturf) has recently gone through alot of maintenance and is a superb facility. It was also decided to introduce NNN (Navan) as a venue - Navan have also conducted alot of work on their track. We hope more tracks both North and South will be encompassed for the 2013 season.
3. Points scoring for 2012 will be based on your final results only. No points will be awarded for qualifying.
4. The championship will endeavour to offer "driver net" at each event so that drivers can monitor the races on their wifi device during the race day.
5. All drivers intending on competing at any round of the championship must be a member of the RCCAOI and have paid both their membership fee (10 euro) and class fee (5 euro) by March 16th 2012. This is to ensure that the organisers can keep all racers whom intend on competing informed about championship news.
6. Anyone wishing to compete at RCCAOI events whom is not a paid up member by March 16th, will be permitted to enter the "Open" Class only. The Open class will purely be a "run on the day" - no results will be published online, and no awards given. Any car with any motor is permitted.

just wondering what is the preferred method of payment of membership(cheque, cash,etc)if sent by post?or is derek taking payment trackside?

Hi Tony,The idea is to have them sent to the address on the form,payment(cheque)but I know this will not be possible for everyone,so I will take them trackside and pass them on to Carel,as he is only 10 mins from me.

Just to say for anyone who sends a cheque to Carel , make the cheque payable to Rccaoi.

Cheers for the reply Derek.don't have a cheque book so that would be handy

Only a day to go till entries close - 6pm 16/3/2012

Things are looking really good for the championship this year. Breakdown is looking like this so far

2wd Mod: 12
2wd Club: 11
4wd Mod: 8
4wd Club: 3

Hopefully as many drivers as possible will attempt to particiapate in all 4 rounds of the series.

Entries
 

Not sure I understood properly. Do we also have to enter the individual rounds by 16th? Thought it was just necessary to register for 16th March?

Hi Andrew, looking at wills original post point 5 only memberships need to be done by the 16th. At least that is what I have done anyway.

Yes Andrew, just your membership has to be in by tomorrow 6pm. You can then pick and choose which rounds you want to go to. You can still go to any round you wish even if you don't pay your membership but you will not score points. You wil only be able to enter the 'open' class.:thumbsup:

Hi Andrew,Your membership and class reg only had to be in for the 16th,which you have done.What rounds you now contest is up to you.

Close on 30 drivers!! Brilliant.
Very happy with that!

So for somebody new to this, what is format for Sunday? If I heard right it will be 4 rounds of qualifying and 3 finals.....will there be practice before first qual round and if so is it open or in heats?

3 rounds of heats and 3 finals. Best 2 finals to count towards your final result.

Not sure about format for practice.

Wrong answer, lose 5 points!! :-)

4 rounds of qualifyin, round by round, best two to count.
3 finals, best two to count.

Booking in closes at 10.30, round 1 at 11am. Last final at about 6.30pm

does anybody know if my RCCAOI form arrived because i dont want to travel to naul and not be able to race?

We wont know whos entries arrived on Friday till tomorrow evening. Will post the names then. When did u send ur entry?

i posted it on tuesday the 13th

thanks for reply

From official thread;

This is championship racing! - the meeting schedule will not be halted for any individual competitor.
Not being at your marshalling position before the 30 second race start warning will instantly result in a penalty.
The judges of fact, race director and race controllers will be announced at the drivers briefing.
Drivers not on the rostrum and/or without a car on the start line at the start of the race will be deemed to have not started the race. Drivers may not access the rostrum after the race start.
Any incident that contrevenes the RCCAOI rules should only be reported to the race director only. A victim complaining to the race controller and/or judges of fact may result in that driver recieving a penalty themselves.

Hi all,

I just want to reiterate this. This Sunday is a day of NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACING - so as well as making sure you have an enjoyable and successful day's racing - I urge all competitors to ensure that they obide by the rules and make sure that racing is fair for everyone.

Very often at club racing, we have competitors that don't arrive at their marshalling position till just a few seconds before the start of the race. This makes it difficult for the drivers on the rostrum to relax and focus on the 5 minute run that is about to start. Because of this, a marshal not arriving at their post in time for the 30 second warning is directly affecting the drivers on the rostrum - on sunday this will be deemed as cheating and will result in a penalty being applied.

We hope that each race during the day is monitored by a Judge of Fact. A Judge of Fact is an individual nominated by the race director to monitor races and report back to the race director if any incidents occur. A Judge of Fact may not issue penalties or implement disciplinary action of any sort. They may only report back to the Race Director whom will take action if required. Any driver seen to be interfering with or intimidating a Judge of Fact will be dealt with swiftly - this is a difficult job that is very necessary given the high standard of racing that is developing in this country - and I don't want people to be discouraged from taking on the roll due to the bad behaviour of "mouthy" competitors.

We have a packed schedule on Sunday so we won't be haulting racing or putting it on "manual" for anyone unless exceptional circumstances call for it. Drivers whom are not on the rostrum and/or don't have their cars on the start line/grid at the start of the race will have deemed to have not started. They will not be permitted to enter the rostrum or start the race once the race start alarm has sounded. Again, this is just in consideration for those drivers who are prepared and are trying to focus on thier run.

The Race Director will be identified at driver's briefing. The Race Director is the only official that complaints should be made to and the Race Director is the only official that can implement disciplinary action of any sort. Making a complaint to a Judge of Fact, a Race Controller, a DMCC committee member or any other official may result in the complainer recieving a penalty themselves. Once a complaint is recieved the Race Director will confirm the infrigment with the relevant Judge of Fact.

Booking-in closes at 10.30am - anyone who plans to arrive after that should contact me no later than Saturday evening to make special arrangement.

A final note to all drivers. Please remember that the Race Director, Race Controllers and Judges of Fact are all racing on the day as well. We will try to ensure that there is as much consistancy in the judgements as possible, and we will always promote fairness and will make sure that everyone is treated the same regardless of racing class, racing level, formula etc.

Have a great day's racing and best of luck to all.

Bring it on!......:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Arrived today Aaron,website updated.See you Sunday.:thumbsup:

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Yes Aaron, you're in and you were the last in :thumbsup:
Roll on a very very competitive year of racing.

Very quiet on here...... should I assume that everyone is too busy working on their cars to look at oOple?:thumbsup:

Yeah Will....all my brain power is being devoted to thinking about set-ups! Woke at 3 this morning debating in my head whether to go with blue or silver front springs:confused:
Looking forward to Sunday :thumbsup:

Lol...I thought it was just me...all I think about is cars and set ups...nothing else matters...we are all sad people..ha ha

You two boys should talk - I'd say setups for the Centro and Vega are very similar.

Sussssh quiet please to busy getting shocks ready and tyres

Is ther a code for the door and the barrier

RCCAOI Round 1 2012 - I think I can sum up the event by quoting one of the racers who has raced for over 20 years when I said that it had been a good day of racing...... His response was "One of the best".

Well done to all of the competitors - the finals in all classes were gripping! (ahem!)
The complaints book and judges of fact to assist the race director worked really really well and plenty of warnings and penalties were issued.

I'll have results up in the next 48 hours.

Regards,

William

Can you tell us who won??:thumbsup:

Can't remember all of the results... but I think whats below is right - I'll have all the results up sooooooon.

The racing was superb - top three in 2wd all broke the previous lap record and 5 minute run record!

2wd mod:
1. Mark Penney
2. Derek McCloskey
3. William White

4wd Mod:
1. Derek McCloskey
2. Aaron Vance
3. Michael Bolger

4wd Club
1. Ivan Thomson
2. Lee McGuire
3. Alan Thomson

2wd Club:
1. Ivan Thomson
2. Kevin White
3. Can't be sure....

Good work there!!! Great results for you guys!!!

I'm looking forward to coming back to race there!!!:thumbsup:

2wd Club:
1. Ivan Thomson
2. Kevin White
3. Ray Power

I think I was 3rd.......More by luck than skill!!

Well done Ray....top job. :thumbsup:

Just a suggestion, what about a sticky thread where the top finishers in races such as this post their set-ups? There is a good mix of cars among the top results.....i know there is lots on info on oople about set-ups (If you go to the specific brands thread) but it would be great to see what people are running on tracks you are familiar with??

Ye might want to check that

By the way, pretty excellent win from Alan in the 3rd leg of the 4wd final! He will get sponsored yet!

Well done Lee on your win! Make sure you get to the next round in Ballymena now.

Yes well done Lee you got me that time good racing.
Alan is already sponsored:D:D:D

It was a great day on sunday. there was some excellent racing in the final, a big thank to everyone whom helped make sunday a sucuss.:thumbsup::thumbsup:
There was a few penalties hand out some of which were iussed due to distraction of the running of the event (sorry tony). :(
A big thank to Dave Bolger for his great job all day with his scruntining, excellent job and very much appreciated..:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Only a month now till round two of the championship in Ballymena. The track has recently gone under the knife and had alot of work done.
Really looking forward to this!!! :thumbsup: