Now that looks like a dramatic improvement compared to your old venue, I'm actually looking forward to visiting for the regionals now rather than trying to work out if I could avoid attending for either class.
I have a couple of questions if you don't mind.
About the rostrum how "non-slip" is that deck surface and how high is the gaurd rail? I've been on a few rostrums in the past built on containers which have felt a little unsafe underfoot and a few rails which have been waist height on me (so must be ankle height for some of our racers). From the pictures it looks like you've done a very good job in both these respects but it is hard to be sure from the images alone. As a clinical vertego sufferer I like to consider these things before going to a venue for the first time. There are two venues that I visited when racing 1/8th RallyX that I simply couldn't race at as I didn't feel safe on the rostrum!
When you say "track will be flat grass" I hope it's not too flat, this is off road racing after all and I personally thought your previous venue, understandably due to it's other use, was a little too flat a surface, hardly a bump to be seen.
I don't know if any of your members remember the old Telford school venue or the Perdiswell venue at Worcester but they were great surfaces. Loads of undualations and 'features' without lots of ruts and little in the way of man made "triangle" jumps being necessary.
Overall I think you have taken a real step forward as a club venue wise, congratualtions to all involved and I hope your efforts are rewarded by lots of good racing. See you at the regionals.
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