Im not knocking the just WRCA as such DCM, its just about everybody racing R/C in Wales, including clubs
Look, theres an example just two post up of lack of communication and/or advertising the from WRCA - Griff, one of the best electric off-road drivers in the UK, not just Wales, and he dosent even know the WRCA website ?!? ( theres 2 Griff, just dont look in to far about Rodeo riding on the other one...
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Another example. After 15 years away from buggies i wanted to come back racing this winter in the Welsh Winter series which i believe, up until now, has been pretty regular every year. Nothing was announced on the WRCA webby and nothing was organised. Fair enough, sometimes things dont happen. But would it have been really that hard for someone to start a thread on the WRCA forum to announce there wasnt going to be a series ? Or the reasons why ? A good forum thread may have thrown up problems that could've been solved with communication from all parties, including those like me, just punters.
Then the AGM itself - if you dont happen to catch a thread on one of the many forums you dont even know theres one on to go to... I certainly didnt ? And theres nothing on the WRCA website itself about the dates of 2010's AGM's ?
Or the Summer Regionals - on the WRCA site the dates are up. But someone looking at that now might not see the other website forum threads about some of the dates clashing with other BRCA events and will probably need to be changed. Not even a side note to that effect. So you tentitively look at your holiday dates, pencil in this and that, and in a few weeks the dates have changed with probably no reason why on the website...
I can see the individual club problem for events and directions for them to go and yes that would take work to sort out, but surely updating the webby and at least trying to get the WRCA forums going again isnt too much to ask for ?
As i said, im probably in the minority here, and being as i dont race much atm i doubt my views are taken seriously, but if i were starting from scratch or a part-time racer the old, empty WRCA website and no post on the forums newer than January 2009 would wrongly convince me nothing much is happening round here Welsh racing wise... and as we know, thats not the case at all.
Come to think of it, I can see why Dave races in the Midlands now..
