Hi John,
Many thanks for the question.
At the start if the year we as a Comittee, sat down and discussed the outdoor track, and the part these discussions were the obviously how many meetings can we run without destroying the track.
As we all know all the other tracks in he region run on AstroTurf, whilst we run on grass. We decided on seven, maybe eight full day meetings, with a few club nights should the track hold up. So in reality maybe we will hold fifteen meetings this year.
Then if you consider some of the other clubs in region they hold maybe 60 meeting per year.
I'd imagine, and this a guess that we have similar running costs as the other clubs in the region, but unfortunately we can run far less meetings. What we can do is offer something that no other club can. A grass track, which we as a club need to seed and now throughout the year. We also want to grow and spend any funds we do make on improving the venues that we run.
Our landlord, has if we want allowed us to lay astro, but we feel that at this stage we offer more to the region by running a grass track, than an astro track. If we were to lay astro, we could run all year round, and if we were to do so I'd imagine the cost of racing would be cheaper. We also probably have more land available than any other club in the country.
I don't really want to get into a debate of race fees, as I think as a whole race entries are to cheap, especially when you consider the hundreds as racers we spend on all the best equipment/cars/esc's/etc.
However the most expensive club is £8 per meeting, which is what we're offering our members, and anyone attending can also purchase tyres at a cheaper rate. If anyone wants details of membership then please let me know.
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