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Originally Posted by big dave
True!. that is one way of doing it. but you can't garentee there will be more numbers attending. The WRCA is currently growing. only 2 years ago, we were lucky to see more than 20 drivers. the £10 fee has been in place for nearly 3 years. with the current numbers each club will have a good income.
We could reduce the fees by £2 to £8, then that loss in revenue over a 12 month period, could be the cost of a new mower for that club, or pa speaker, so when the grass is too long or we cant hear the pa properly. we can say, if we had short grass and the pa was clear, i would pay an extra £2.
really i think a compromise would be the reduced second class. £20 or £30 for one days racing is steep. but come on guys £10 for a days racing, is it really that much money.
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Again i sort of agree with you - remember im only talking about electric rather than Nitro here, as i think most of us are.
Example though. At GNR we had 14 2wd and 8 4wd ( think there was one or two more, but that strange interference problem cut a couple of peoples racing short at the end and didnt run the finals ) at 10 quid per head thats 220 quid. If that had been cut to 8 quid per head that wouldve been 176 quid. A difference of 44 quid.
BUT, if that wad been so im pretty sure 3 or 4 of us would've ran 2 classes, and maybe a couple more who didnt come wouldve, getting us back up to the 220 or therabouts. Or of course the second class half price idea. Its all to do with how it LOOKS for value for money. I could go on about marketing and price breaks, but i would bore you all to death
And of course, as far as i know each club only runs one electric Regional each year, so thats not exactly a huge loss of income even in the worse case senario is it ?
As as been said before somewhere in the threads here, if the meeting WERE a little better - clear PA's, immaculate tracks etc etc then yes the higher fees would be worth it. And of course the bug-bear of the extra track time that Nitros have over the electrics makes your fees of the same cost BETTER value for money that we experience at the moment. Dont you agree there ?
As Griff says, if it were down to just track time Nitros would be paying substantially more than electrics per meeting....