[ashleyb4]

I heard after you had left that your pt had failled. If i had known before you left i would of lent you my spare pt as it is a horrible having to go home early. But i dont think it is fair to blame anyone at the region for what happened if your transmitter or speed controller had stopped working you wouldnt expect the region to have spare one of those for you. We have been lucky over the past 2 - 3 years we have had stuart to run the computer during the meeting's and he has sourced a full set of excellent hand out transponders that we where able to use for the full series in the past unfortunatly these are no long avaliable for use so it was decided that making pt's compulsory was the only route. Before this happened we relied on each club to to supply the timing equipement and speaking as a member of a club who runs regionals it was certainly not an easy task insuring everone's transponder counts. I like the new rule of everyone having a pt as they seem alot more reliable than handouts. I hope you rethink what you have put above as we have the best region in the country run by some top people who do alot of work both at the track and behind the scene's making sure the regional's happen. I think it is a shame that Tom and Stuart are standing down at the end of the year as they have both done an excellent job.

Ash