Over in Germany we have had a large injection of new people come over to offroad from touring cars since the cars got so fast a lot of people had trouble keeping up with their kit.
Over the winter we held the Longfield Sixdays and were totally overwhelmed by the interest it generated. Entries went up from 35-40 people per race in 2008/2009 to a regular 100 entries per race in 2009/2010. A nice touch is that we had a good 20 or so newcomers per race as well who have stayed on as we went outside.
Offroad does seem to be clawing it's way back out of the slump caused by touring cars in the 90's bigtime now. The cars are at their best ever and the choice of cars is incredible with all cars being more or less on the same level of performance making it easy to choose.
Now all we need to do is figure out a race format to mix things up a little now that we can run 15 minutes + with lipo. Bump-ups would be really cool
