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Originally Posted by Si Coe
So you make a small hole in the shell for the sensor to go through. Not rocket science!
Anyway I'd like to point out that the I-Laps PT costs just £35, which means you could have got an MRT PT for tracks with AMB/MyLaps systems, and an I-Laps PT for the same price as the old AMB PTs! So no extra cost involved at all!
The fact is that even today many small or new clubs still time by the old fashioned manual 'numbers on the car' system. Why? Because its so much cheaper. Smaller clubs simply can't afford AMB/Mylaps, even used ones are pricy.
The result is something I'm sure those older hands can't fail to have noticed - the steady decline of the small 'local' club in favor of the larger 'regional' club. And this in turn leads to a drop in young people joining the sport as most of them can't travel any significant distance to race. As a teacher I work with plenty of kids who are fascinated by my cars and would love to go racing, but couldn't possible convince their parents to drive them 45min-1hr to drop them at the track every Sunday. When I grew up little local clubs of 12-20 were common and these were never far away, so new drivers didn't need to travel much.
I'm not suggesting the current situation is AMB/Mylaps fault - its vastly too complex for that, but anything that helps redress it by helping the small club is a positive in my book
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I think you've hit the spot with this post.
Too many people on this forum think the world revoles around regional and national meetings - well surpirse surprise it doen't
Our club is a LOCAL club and that's how I want it to stay. As I've mentioned before, if I could find cheaper public indemnity insurance I would leave the BRCA in a second. That's the only reason we are affiliated with them as they don't really give much support to the small local clubs and are only interested in supporting regional and national meetings/groups.
We have lots of young kids racing with us and it's a great atmosphere for all. I've raced at regional meetings in the past and maybe I had a bad experience, but I wouldn't say it was enjoyable at all. I race because I love racing RC cars. I have no interest in being the best in my region or the UK. I simply enjoy providing an environment where fellow fans of RC cars can have fun too - that's what the goal of our club was and we are doing very well
I've also run clubs in the past where we have had 100 drivers turn up for an outdoor meeting and we've managed to keep that same feeling which is a great thing to see. Yes we race competitively, but at the same time we do not want to scare off new blood into the sport.