Been reading though the post's in this thread. there are some really good points here, and im sure we should book a full day for the next wrca agm as im sure this will really get bashed out.
But my opinion is.........
a Reginal is the steping stone before the nationals. we run our clubs at around £5-£6 race fees, then we set our reginals at £10, that way when we travel to larger events or nationals we don't get a big shock of the cost differnce.
to help the WRCA to grow more, then i would agree we should half the price of the second class, to encourage more drivers to run a second class, and even halfing that again to a 3rd class.
ive noticed more younger drivers so far this year as the child fee has been halfed.
But the main issue is the revenue for clubs in wales. the clubs need these large event incomes. The cost of equipment, and maintenance fees, are not cheep. Wales is too small to have large clubs with 100+ members filling the bank with money, our clubs are small numbers, so race fees and membership fees are not enough to help develop a club to better things.
Swansea has lost it's track at the elba due to noise. We have had to pay for planning permission, Drawings to made of our area of land we want to develop, then we need to find more money to move our containers and track marking. that before we buy fence and build a track. Swansea is a club in wales that runs a reginal round of the WRCA. the £10 we all pay for 1 days racing goes to things like this. if we half the income from the round, then what will happen to the clubs that rely on the income each year. As said before GNR has bought 2 mowers from the income, so the club has improved, so all they need now is training to learn how to use them
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We all would like to save money where we can, and i bet most pepole would put there hands up to saving it on race fees, but you need to remember where the money goes. it goes back to you. as i mean the clubs of wales.