Sorry for the thread resurrection, I found myself revisiting this topic, and given my summer experiences, think there's new information to add.
I've spent the summer racing 1/10th at BADMCC, on a portion of their 1/8th track. It's not absolutely ideal for 1/10th, being rather bumpy (debris, mostly), having jumps the wrong way in some places, and lacking any tight, technical sections. Nevertheless, it was fun, though turn-out stubbornly remained very low.
I'll be attending a meeting of the BADMCC tomorrow and hope to have some input on the future of 1/10th at the club. Ideas of 'a track within a track' and so on, and more active promotion of the class could be offered.
I raced once at Ballymena, too - again, a nitro club, but smaller and on astroturf. IMHO, it's a superb electric track - in fact, probably better suited to 1/10th than 1/8th - I believe the laptime difference between the top nitro and electric that day was 1 second in nitro's favour, and that was with home advantage! I believe there will be another visit by electric drivers there next Saturday, though I'll not be able to go. While there is no regular club attendance for 1/10th there, their track would be ideal for a regional - certainly, the RCCAOI members liked it.
So, what would we need to do to run BRCA regionals next year?
Edit: I've emailed Michael Todd, the BRCA rep for N.I., with this question.
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