So my thoughts..
1) Track width, I'd be interested to hear what Cobra and Swansea do at their club meetings, do they run anything wider than 2m? I know at Caldicot we run 2m width every week, so we're used to running at that width.
Wider would obviously be better, but Caldicot would probably have to drop out of the WRCA series if that was the case as we simply don't have the space.
My thought would be an advised track width of 2.2m and a minimum of 2m. That way clubs with more space can run wide, and those space challenged clubs can run narrower where they need to. Caldicot for example could run 2m generally with wider sections where ever we could fit them in as a compromise.
2) Rostrum height, we're thinking about updating our rostrum in the very near future, so if there is going to be a ruling/change on this then we'd be better off knowing this now so we can account for it. Min height of 750mm would be fine for us I would guess.
3) New one...what are peoples thoughts on splitting the nitro and electric rounds to run on their own next year?
The Cobra and Caldicot rounds had a big enough turnout of electric to make a good days racing on their own, but some of the other rounds didn't get the same numbers.
I'm not sure about turnout on the Nitro side, it looked pretty good to me each time, and nitro doesn't suffer the charging time problem that electric has with lower turn outs.
My personal observation, at the 2 Talywain rounds the timings of the day were both compromised slightly by the classes running together (late running at the first round and no practice round at the second). Not that it was a big problem, the club made the best call it could each time which I understand fully, but it just wasn't quite the ideal situation for anyone.
GNR's combined round was fine as I remember, and I was unable to attend the Saundersfoot or Swansea rounds in the end so can't comment on those, but haven't heard any negative comments, so maybe that's not really an issue?
Is it too soon for the numbers we have?
Are the Nitro & electric clubs willing or able to put on 2 separate events rather than 1 combined one?
Would it make scheduling the rounds for each class easier to avoid clashes with other events within the same class?
Or does it actually make it harder to schedule as there would be twice the number of events to run for the combined clubs and the same people running those events whatever the class of racing?
Would running separate rounds mean getting more drivers at each class because the other isn't running, or do we think the combined races are still the best way to do it for next year?
Intersted to hear what everyone thinks on that one.
That's all from me.
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