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Originally Posted by Smartalec
There are a few clubs that have built some jumps and run all the classes side by side each week, they work quite well and their numbers are up. I used to attend Aylesbury club on a Friday (AORRC) but touring cars with stock motors and tyres with no grip made it uninteresting for me (and others) and they said they weren't interested in running buggies on a regular basis, only as a filler class.
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The Aylesbury club did have a thriving buggy scene (1/18) at one time, with sometimes 2 heats or more of them. They were great fun. However, all of a sudden, they went out of fashion and everybody stopped racing them. Why?
Through all that though, the touring cars and minis survived.
I totally agree that MA needs to support both on and off-road. They need to be careful though. I remember not too long ago when off-road racing almost died in this country. It's popular at the moment, but don't count on it lasting. Make the tracks flexible to accommodate changing fashions.
BTW, couldn't you have a track which incorporated an on-road circuit with some alternative off-road sections in the infield? Sort of like a rallycross track?
As for falling numbers, I think that's got more to do with the state of the economy than anything else. Don't start me off about banks!
Cheers