Like Darren said – it has been like that for years and years and originally or certainly when I was the regional rep one of the reasons was for the dads and families being encouraged to travel to the regional events and it was to find those special youngsters like Lee Martin, Darren Bloomfield, Tony Truman and the list of superb drivers goes on and on. By the way in case people didn’t know, they are all from the Mid-South. I can name more super drivers of course and more from our region.
I believe that this rule has actually something to do with these drivers learning early skills at various venues and racing with different drivers.
Obviously there are other benefits but I recall this.
I also believe that clubs holding regional actually make sure their members support their BRCA regionals.
In fact totally the opposite to just going to one club.
It is the organisers that really should be educating the racers and the newcomers.
Club, regional, national, euros and worlds --- in that order
It can of course be argued that pure club racers may not want to travel or have an interest for BRCA regional events but I remind you all that these are BRCA sanctioned events and we all should support the governing body of our sport along with the people that make these decisions in the first place. Without them it would simply be a shambles so for this reason alone they should be supported.
On the note of speaking on the rostrum – I personally hate when people are chatting how good their cars are jumping, or how nice their mother-in-law is etc etc. It is an area where people like myself concentrate for the FULL duration of the race.
Lastly and it has to be understood I have nothing to do with any organisations, if a club didn’t agree with all this, they would not of got a regional, so really all a bit of pointless arguments.
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