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Originally Posted by Lee24h
Scott come to kettering mcc one friday we run 13.5t turbo or slower and its not banger racing its quite a small track and we run 10th tourers
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I used to race at Kettering, it was the Xray that got me back into RC racing once the family had grown up a bit
We started racing Touring Cars at Bromham when I setup that club and we raced 13.5 Brushless with Turbo/Boost on a polished floor with rally block tyres the control tyre. We used to have some great fun in those days and yes we had drivers of all standards...
The big issue I have, is not drivers who are learning their race craft, it's those who simply don't want to listen
and think that crashing is fun
We've tried to make it clear as 'sensitively' as we can that if you want to go banger racing, there are clubs that cater for that. BEDSRCMCC is NOT one of those clubs.
Interestingly, we stopped racing TCs at our club as we saw a marked increase in the speed of them and people were crashing out too much, so I still stand by my initial thoughts that the tech has made a quantum leap forward in the past 2-3 years and to be fair, driving standards are a little behind those in some cases.
What's more interesting is that the BRCA had a real chance last month to help put in place rules that would help but it appears from what I heard on Friday that they've fudged the rules in GT12 without having the conviction to enforce a slower motor for the Production Cup
So that leaves clubs who want to try and slow things down out in the cold (this is just about GT12 racing, not off-road or Touring Cars). There were some interesting ideas put forward but it seems it failed to get past through. Seems the BRCA needs to rethink what the aim of the organisation is - is it about supporting the hobby of RC racing and nurturing new blood, or is it about supporting top flight RC racing... Maybe a topic for another thread one day
Going back to the issue of driver skill and tech for a moment, I had an epiphany this week...
All our attempts at trying to improve driver skill has always focussed on the negative - penalty points for bad driving, making people go slower, having a moan all the time bad driving, emails to try and get engagement on the topic etc etc.
But now my epiphany is that positive encouragement, ie the carrot rather than the stick' might be the way forward. So we are going to trial a system in the club's next Championship whereby all drivers have the opportunity of voting each week for the driver they felt drove the best (based upon their ability). That driver in question will be rewarded a sizeable amount of points that could see them move up the leader board very quickly. It will be interesting to see how the carrot works over the stick
