Very well said George!
I agree with some of what you say, not that it matters any more than one person agreeing or disagreeing with another lol.
Rules can be frustrating, but they are there to try and make things fair. I agree with you on motors and batteries for sure, and to be fair size and shape and weight doesn't make a huge difference, after all, out little toy cars have been engineered to go as fast as possible, I don't see how they could go much faster.
But when it comes to a regional meeting certain rules do help keep things consistent. Example, you go along to this meeting on Monday and the regional rep has changed the qualifying, 1 round of qualifying, and he puts you heat 1 car 10. Now what chance do you have making a good time?
Now before all you jump up and down and say you all sat at an AGM and decided this, I did read that, but you also said the regional rep should make all the decisions, now you see it's getting quite confused here.
The story continues, so you go ahead and race and have a rubbish day, and you say you will never race again, the regional rep never should have been able to make a decision like that!!
Another short story, you have a racer that has raced for 20+ years at the other end of the country from you, he has got his whole family involved and it's a family day out, then his work relocates him to your area at short notice, so he pack all his stuff and moves, he comes along to the first regional, it's announced that it's 3+3, well he is upset, he knows the rules, and has raced 4+ finals for a long time, and he has a bad day.
So there is 2 sides to the story, now you can say well why didnt the guy just accept 3+3, and he would say why can't you just race to the rules, you guys then explain, we don't like all the BRCA rules, but were going to host regionals, so we had the AGM and decided to change the rules for our region. And he says, what, you have changed the rules that you agreed to go by when you decided to host a regional, and you have done it at a time and place when all the drivers were not present to ask???
This is a perfect example when the BRCA rules help. Now it takes a lot of work to run a track as you know, it also takes a lot of work to run the BRCA and these guys give their time up for free. Now they don't just sit around and make rules for the fun of it. Each section has a number of meetings throughout the year, and of course there is the annual BRCA AGM. They have watched the way qualifying and racing has worked for many years, and as a group have voted this method of 4 qualifying and finals, I believe it is only mandatory that the A final have a 3 legged final. So you can have 3 finals for all if you want.
Now I know there was not much of a racing scene a few years ago and as a result you guys adopted your 3+3 on your race days. But you have grown, and there is enough drivers to separate 2wd and 4wd regionals with your support SC and open classes. You would have about at least 8 heats if you separated.
I have not seen anyone in this thread badmouth any of you guys, I have not seen any bickering, what I have seen is people putting their side forward. Which is a healthy debate.
That's probably the longest post I've ever made haha
