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Originally Posted by mattybucks
A couple of things that I'm thinking of introducing to the Telstar Events are:
Marshalls have to be relieved before leaving the post, as per the 345's I attended.
A small levy of £2, which is refunded to anyone helping pack the track away.
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Matty/Dudders, try running a sweepstake! which is what we do at our club in Watford.
We tried many years ago to use the 50p/£1 refund idea and it simply did not work, some poeple would do a "minimal" amount or packing up, then stand around chatting until the £1's were dished back out and most others simply for the sake of a £1 or so said sod it and went home anyway leaving the few left to do all the work.
Matt, you will already know having run a few meetings now, but Neil you will soon see that the amount of stuff you need to do an indoor track is far greater than what needs setting up for an outdoor one in most cases and can be a LOT of work.
The one thing we should ALL have on us as racers is our BRCA card (we are supposed to have it at all meetings) and all we do, is at booking in take each of the racers BRCA card and put them in a tin. At the end of the night, when ALL racing and packing away is done, we do a sweepstake (ours is 50p from every entry - less cost for the club that way too), but depending on numbers you get that gives a £15 or so prize which is "worth" hanging around for and taking a chance at (more so thatn a guarrenteed £1), if we get more racers we often split it into two or three smaller amounts. The other thing is you have their BRCA cards, they cant "sneak off" without it (soon shows up when they come to book in the following week without one - the one that is still in your tin!!
) Result for us, more helpers, less work for a minority, a few happy winners every week and over a course of a year almost everyone wins at some time. Our whole indoor track (carpet, wood, ramps bots dots etc, now goes awy fully in under 10 minutes - used to tkae 4 or 5 of us 25/30mins)
Of course some poeple (early risers, young children) HAVE to leave early, they just come up and ask for thier card as the night goes on when they need to go (you will soon realise those who are genuine and those who are pulling a fast one here
).
Variations on the theme, person who draws the winning card CANNOT pick out their own (race control chooses someone at random, we often use the TQ guy or A final winner, since he has already "won" somthing that night) this stops people cheating with nicks or rasied markings on their own card, extra thick lamination etc etc (yes we HAVE seen this happen
) plus some weeks we get the winner of the week befores sweep to draw the first card out (stops same person winning every week etc)
Hope that helps, even if just a little, it comes from 18+ years now of a running an indoor club, you both have my number if you need any more help or advice.