Well Neil the meeting was run with the ruthless efficiency we have come to expect from Stuart.
The track was off-road for sure unlike the bowling green at the other venue and it did rut and wear in the traction zones but hey it's a grass off road track, they do that.
The track surface could do with a roller session just to compress it and stop it rutting up so much as it wears but otherwise shows great promise.
The rostrum is good (only complaint I heard was the stairs aren't wide enough to pass on so had to wait for everybody to get off before we could get on reducing "warm up" time). Site facilities were good on the whole and show promise.
Track layout was a little compactwith lots of switchback type corners that caught many out but if you could get into a groove then it flowed well enough and wasn't bad to drive.
Only issue was it was nearly impossible to pass anybody in qualifying and if you looked at the time sheets there were lots of people who suddenly went 2-3s a lap slower for 3 or 4 laps until the person they were following binned it (or they did).
That said it wasn't too bad so long as people worked with each other.
So was it all good ..... erm no.
The jumps are awful, simply awful. They didn't have any flexibilty at the bottom and the ground in front of them all quickly worn to the point there were gaps at the foot of the ramp = unpredictable take off and thus random landings.
The table top was square edged, no hint of a curve at the joints so if you dropped the back edge of your chassis on them over you went ... nothing you could do about it. Again this was ok so long as you could pick your own line / speed but soon as you got into traffic it was anybodys guess what would happen.
I can honestly say I can't remember seeing the top 2 heats marshalled as much at a regional!
So in summary
Venue as is 7/10 (potential to be a 9 or maybe better)
Rostrum 8/10
Track 7/10 (will get better once they have chance to work with it for a few more months)
Jumps 0/10
Awaiting the flames
