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Originally Posted by MiCk B.
Kevin,
It's my understanding that the €10 +€5 (=€15 as above) is for non-members to race on the day. The additional €5 makes them a club member for the day.
(Totally new people are given a few meeting grace period from requiring club membership.)
So basically on a club day everyone is a club member, either fully paid up year member or a day member. Also day members can transfer over to full membership, and keep the points they have already scored.
So someone can race at a club round as a day member, €15 race fee score points. At the next club round join the club, thus race fee drops to the normal €10 for club members. But this would be their second round in the club championship.
That the way I see it, but open to correction.
MiCk B. :-)
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You're sort of right - so let's clear this up.
- Only fully paid up club members qualify for end of championship points.
- As per the rule book, there is a 5 euro insurance levy for non-members on top of the race fee. This allows the club to make the driver a temporary member for the day and allows them to be covered under the insurance policy. The club has a practice of dropping this levy from the start of the indoors to Xmas as there is no point in a driver paying for membership so late in the year and it is unfair to penalise those who don't.
- The 5 euro insurance levy - so race fees for non members will be 15 euro (seniors) and 10 euros (juniors) - will be reinstated from February 1st.
- New racers (new to the sport) are not charged either a race fee or an insurance fee for the first 2 weeks that they attend. Drivers from other classes and clubs with experience would not be classified as new racers.
- It would be fully legal to race in a championship paying the extra 5 euro each round and then pay your membership before the last round - but this would be an expensive way of going about it - best just pay the membership fee up front.
To put this into simple terms - for the club to run well and for the organisers to be able to plan ahead (new tracks, new jumps, new expenditure) we need to know who is onboard. So I would encourage anyone who plans to race in the DMCC more than 3 or 4 times during the season to join the club.