I would like to thank everyone for there opinions at the moment we are still getting around twelve touring cars, it would be nice to run on seperate days for the tourers and offroad but iam afraid touring cars would not pay for itself. I thank jim for his apology about being a bit harsh but to be honest he can voice his oppinon we need honesty to improve the club, i agree the table top was difficult no awful yesterday but i can assure you thats been the only day and we can only put it down to weather conditions. Now we know this we are looking into maybe making the table top shorter in height and which will then lessen the angle on the up slope this will be done by Sunday and tested. As for tarmac we are seriously looking at alternatives, we have tried to lessen the effect of the tarmac as much as possible but we can't just turn round to the touring boys and say iam sorry find some where else to race, to be honest most of them have just come in to the hobby and have been looking into running buggys so maybe another potential 10 to 12 drivers coming in to offroad so i do not want to just drop them.
As for tyres the type of covering we use seems to give loads of grip even with tyre wear down in fact the more wear the better the lap times in the case of rob 23.4 on nearly bald fronts myself yesterday 23.6 on the last lap of the last final on well used tyres and then good hustle doing 23.8 on worn mini pins. I know the top boys may change tyres quite regular but they do that anyway because they can while us minows after to be more careful, but i feel our track is a great leveller you do not have to get the best car best equipment to to do well we had yesterday a old schumacher bosscat in 2WD A Final(thats because it was 4 but its had it so can only get it to work in 2) with all the top boys at one point leading a final because he's a good driver not because of his equipment. Jim it would give me great pleasure to hold a regional next year if asked, we were tempted this year to offer but beacause we did not know if the track would be done and to be honest our timing equipment is a bit old we thought better off it. I can assure you myself and ivor will be in total support of the region as if the regional off road does well so will the hobby and the clubs of which we are one, we are ourselves booked into 4 regionals so we will be supporting the region.
Regards Darran Leverton Raceway
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