[TheReferee]

before this gets totally out of hand lets look at some facts, there are 26 weekends between 2nd april and the 25 september, contrary to popular opinion the committee do try and avoid clashes where possible and we do not select our dates until we know both the international calender and the uk off road calender, we try to avoid bank holiday weekends if at all possible as it is not fair to send racers up the motorway system on a bank holiday friday.
we avoid a clash with the 1/10 euro's the 1/10 worlds and the belgian GP which we know many uk 1/10 racers like to attend.
we then avoid clashing with the 1/8 euro b and a races.
we managed to avoid 3 of the 4 bank holidays and now we have to fit in the clubs wishes in terms of dates, remember some of our venues (Oswestry and southport) are in publicly accesible parks and are constrained on dates by other users. this year we have clashed rounds 2,3 and 4 of both series which all occur occur in a 6 week period and include 2 international 1/8 events and 2 1/10 international events. i really do not see how we can be accused of not doing the best for both 1/10 and 1/8.
it will always be impossible to not have a clash of some sort, this year is poorer than before due to the 1/10 worlds and associated warm up race which is in europe. next year may improve but then that depends on where the 1/8 worlds is. it is very easy to criticise the committee when you are looking at a calendar and see what is to you a free weekend with no clash. however you do not have the information that on that date we have no club able to do it and so have to move it forward or back. what you have is the minimum number of clashing events we can achieve given the constraints we have.