Hi all,
Anyway I've been back a few weeks now and plans have been getting made for a good years racing. We even got our first couple of racers from outside our direct friend group. Infact one of the halls we've been usings Chairman and son (about 60 and 30 years respectively).
I think we have decided upon the best indoor venue locally. We tried it briefly a while ago but didn't really make use of the space. This time we really could see the potential for it to grow into a proper club. The main part of the track we made here is about 21mx8.5m but the total track area including the little side area of around 190sqm but we think it could be made to be over 200sqm which is minimum national level track size (not that were thinking of nationals, just a good size track).
Track width was at least 2m and i think the selection of features and corners worked really well for clean yet intersting racing for all abilities.
We can even make a decent height rostrum easily and that makes such a difference from the stages and even chairs we've been used to at other halls.
This time we had the pit area next to the track, but next time we will use one of the many un-used rooms in the building. It has enough tables and chairs for around 300 people so pits shouldn't be an issue
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It even has excellent car cooling stands
Here is one of the smaller side rooms that could be used for pitting.
For the first time we even took a printer to prin the results
The venue location is:-
Langtree Parish Hall
Southlands Dr
Torrington, Devon EX38 8RH
Time from about 11am-6pm Most if not every Saturday.
Were thinking about running an open day of free racing at some point in the next 4-5 weeks to try and draw a some of the local (and hopefully not so local) racers out of the wood work to come and have a good day and give us some feedback on the track venue etc. this would be open to both micro racers and 10th off road. As we've all almost sorted our 10ths out as well now.
I'm going to try and get a club section on Oople (and ukmicrorc when its back up) and are going to really try and promote both micro and 10th racing locally both indoors and at the astro track, which incedentaly we have some big changes planned for this year
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But more on that soon......
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