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Originally Posted by spindles69

But this is my opinion,would after all of our effort in sorting out a venue and organising everything that because its in the "south"that the majority of the micro scene would scrub that round?

why would we all scrub it mike? if were willing to drive to broughton, then surely we're willing to drive to ockenden (a journey which i've done in an old VW bus, maybe a 7 hour trip).
to paraphrase an awesome baseball movie, "if you host it, they will race"

Originally Posted by sldmodels

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.

It does sound bitter sarah, and if you'd seen the pace of the cars @ microx, you'd understand marks concerns, we cannot go back to the smaller venues with the LWB sharks and GT14's, they are just too fast. Maybe we'll get to the stage where we are hosting a separate 1/18th scale series at smaller venues, we'll see.
In no way have any rules been voted in to spite smaller clubs and or go against foam manufacturers, too many people have to vote for that to be possible.

Originally Posted by Mark Stiles

Wouldn't have made much difference this year, as fewer suitable clubs applied than there were national meetings to fill, so there would have been nowt to vote on!

IMO the size of the cars is going to become a problem, and to be truthful has already. Bigger cars need bigger tracks, and they can also handle more power, so guess what? They need even bigger tracks!

If the dimensional rules were SWB shark sized maximum, then there would be more suitable clubs able to host big meetings. As it stands I reckon you need a track area of at least 12m x 24m (micro x size, which was quite small compared to the size and speed of the cars I think!) - which is what 1/12 scale were running on less than 10 years ago! What clubs are there who support micro and have a track of this size? Only a handful by my reckoning...

Like I say - we'll end up running on 10th buggy tracks before long, but if/when that happens I may as well go and race 1/10th buggies thanks!

As for the tyres - I have heard lots of rumours too. The fact is the change of rule will not affect the results at all - the Micro X proved that. What it will do is hurt some manufacturers (i.e. gecko), hurt people in the pocket and perhaps force them to run a different tyre. I am currently running rubbers at club level as there's no point in running foams if I can't use them at the nationals. The set of rallyblocks on my car were new for the micro X, and they are already severely worn after that and 3 club meetings. I used to get 2 moths or more out of a set of foams, which were also cheaper to buy in the first place. BRCA rules are for nationals only, but there can be no doubt that they affect club level racing to some degree...

the man talks sense, but i've never had any trouble with yellow blocks, last me all year. ( but the i don't drive as hard as mark does)

finally, if you do host a regional series, let us all know the dates i'd definitely be up for racing at a few of them.