d'an south!
Most of the venue's I've had to go to for the past few years, have been at least an hour's drive, High Wycombe and Leighton Buzzard we're over 2 hours, with Cardiff being 3, and Swansea being an extra 30mins on top of that, and then I didn't even get to race there.
Before the start of the national series proper, a friend of mine who had been doing micros, said he wasn't doing them anymore, as they we're all "d'an south", and that was with Tamworth, Ellesmere Port and Chesterfield in the series.
I will go to places to race when and where I can, I think most of us will, but we pretty much all want the venue's on our doorstep, but this is a NATIONAL series, not a regional series.
I do think however, that the the size requirements for venues, needs to be thrown out completley as we've been to clubs like LB, Wycombe, Macclesfield (rip) which weren't the biggest, but used what they had and put on a bloody good event, and my immediate thoughts when I heard about the size requirements was a feeling that those smaller venues we're being snubbed, ie "thanks for all your help, but we want BETTER now", I've also heard worrying rumours about why foams we're banned, but the rubber tyres we're using now seem to be the tyre of choice at the mo', but again, that feels like a big snub to Gecko, who have supported our series almost from the start.
Sorry if this sounds bitter, guess that's just the mood I'm in right now.
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