Your Club - How many, how often, how big?
 

Just doing a little research on what makes a "successful" club. I have my own ideas and I'd be interested to see if they match yours. Particularly interested in indoor, electric clubs, either on-road or off-road

Could people possibly answer in this thread with a few details about their club?

CLUB NAME:
CLASSES RACED:
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE:
TYPE OF TRACK (ie carpet, slippy, lots of jumps, smooth):
SIZE OF TRACK (either laptimes or physical size):
TIME, LENGTH AND DATE OF RACE MEETINGS (whether weekly, fortnightly, evening etc):
DO YOU THINK IT IS A SUCCESS, IF SO WHY?:

Any assistance much appreciated.

Dave A.

I'll start the ball rolling with our own club, NERCR.

CLUB NAME: NERCR aka Nissan/Durham (racing in Sunderland)
CLASSES RACED: 1/10th touring and buggy.
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE: 15-20.
TYPE OF TRACK: Slippy, smooth.
SIZE OF TRACK: 15-20 secs lap, approx 30mx15m.
TIME, LENGTH AND DATE OF RACE MEETINGS: Sundays when we can get the hall, approximately twice a month. 12pm-5pm.
DO YOU THINK IT IS A SUCCESS, IF SO WHY?: A success but you can always be more successful!:D

Dave

CLUB NAME: York Off Road Car Club (yorcc.org.uk)
CLASSES RACED: 1/10 buggys, 2WD 540, 2WD modified and 4WD
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE: 30/40
TYPE OF TRACK: Carpet and sports hall floor (approx 50% of each)
SIZE OF TRACK: the big boys do 15/16 second laps, I do a bit slower...
TIME, LENGTH AND DATE OF RACE MEETINGS: every sat night except school holidays
DO YOU THINK IT IS A SUCCESS, IF SO WHY?: no idea, but we keep going!

CLUB NAME: GTCC (gtcc.me.uk)
CLASSES RACED: 1/10th tourers
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE: 40/50
TYPE OF TRACK: Carpet
SIZE OF TRACK: 8 to 10 second laps
TIME, LENGTH AND DATE OF RACE MEETINGS: fortnightly on a sat night
DO YOU THINK IT IS A SUCCESS, IF SO WHY?: Its superb, the club nearly folded, battled thorugh that phase and is going well now

CLUB NAME: Teesside Radio Car Club (trcc.org.uk)
CLASSES RACED: 1/10 buggys 2wd, 4wd, Touring cars, 1/12 scale, Mardave, anything really.
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE: 30/60
TYPE OF TRACK: On road carpet and off road carpet with some astro turph and plenty of jumps, a fast banked corner plus a new feature??
SIZE OF TRACK: well, not sure about the on road but it’s pretty big, off-road though anything from 13 to 16 laps at about 22 seconds depends if it’s a fast or tight technical track.
TIME, LENGTH AND DATE OFF MEETINGS: Every Wednesday 6 till 9 for practice and every Saturday night 4 till 10.30ish
DO YOU THINK ITS A SUCCESS, IF SO WHY: I would say, yes, because its the best indoor facility in the northeast, its got 2 tracks and a canteen, every thing under 1 roof.

CLUB NAME:Oswestry Radio Car Club
CLASSES RACED:1/10th buggy, 1/10th TC, 1/12th mardaves, 1/18th micro, 1/8th rallycross, 1/8th trucks.
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE:12 to 17
TYPE OF TRACK (ie carpet, slippy, lots of jumps, smooth):
Winter: Carpet small jump.
Summer: Grass, Astro, Tarmac, Concreat bug naional jump nad anything smaller jump.
SIZE OF TRACK (either laptimes or physical size):
Winter: fastest lap is about 11 seconds.
Summer: have a clue
TIME, LENGTH AND DATE OF RACE MEETINGS (whether weekly, fortnightly, evening etc):
Club meetings every week thursday night
We have 6 day sof racing this year
1/10th off road national series round 4
2 rounds of the Mid west 1/10th off road regional series 2wd and 4wd
2 rounds of the border counties league
DO YOU THINK IT IS A SUCCESS, IF SO WHY?:
Yes i think oswestry is successful we have alot of events here we have the best laod of members all very friendly and we have alot of people who travel a long distance to come and raceevery week.

A

www.oswestryrcc.org.uk

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CLUB NAME:Thunder Road Model Car Club (Romnet Marsh, Kent)
CLASSES RACED:MT, RX, Truggy
AVERAGE ATTENDANCE:yet to find out as Club only formed in Dec 2006
TYPE OF TRACK: Off road dirt track
SIZE OF TRACK:70 x 60 ms, lap length 350 ms (approx)
TIME, LENGTH AND DATE OF RACE MEETINGS:Every fortnight on Sundays in Season (22/4 - 21/10) 9am start
DO YOU THINK IT IS A SUCCESS, IF SO WHY?:Hope so, people are now coming forward to join and help at track work days. Want to encourage and recruit youngsters ( www.thunderroadracing.co.uk )

we need a 'location' on the list.