Hi there fellas, Im membership Secretary at Swindon, so I'll answer what I can. (Hi ya chris-we last met at KRob's micro club
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Basically, the Open championship is supported by Microtech Racing and has a fixed entry fee for members or non members. Normally dates are set to avoid bigger meetings so more people can go (obviously hard in 10th electric with nats and regionals to avoid) The championship is for 4wd and 2wd and 8th buggy and truggy.
The club championship is for club members to score in (you can still come and if you get pole, you keep pole, and can win the A) as pionts are taken from FTD list. We race the finals for chocolate!! Members rates are £3, and non members are £6.
We run PT's and don't believe we'll be running the handouts except at the regionals, when handouts will be available.
The 10th track at club level uses the small cut through so that club members running on a budget aren't at such a disadvantage with horsepower.
The Open and Regional events will run a larger layout to vary things a bit.
Once all work on the track is finished and the chairman is happy all safety work is up to scratch, the track will be open to members till 8pm at night (TBC) BUT there may be certain stipulations to this....The council wanted a committee member and first aider on site whenever any running was done, however, i believe we've come to some agreement over this, but not sure what yet. All will be revealed when the track is open i guess.