[paulywally]

OK guys I have just been made aware of this thread, so I have not been watching this develop,

we all have the same desire to enjoy our hobbie and attract new and old participant’s back in to the local clubs.


Benfields hall / trophy’s and catering are all booked and paid for in advance as it’s the only way we can secure the hall at a rate where it is affordable and cost effective for the club. at the request of the guys traveling who normally attend Worksop, I am awaiting the centre manager to call me to confirm we can change the first date to the 26th October, unfortunately since I booked and confirmed the dates, Worksop have added the date of the 19th October to their original dates,

Benfield put this series on last year at the request of the club members to give the club driver’s and also the new and younger drivers the experience of a local competition and the chance to develop and improve their skills this is lead to Benfield having a core of 15
Regularly attending junior members. And I believe the 2 youngest racing members of the BRCA.

The committee and I spent a lot of personal time and effort co-ordinating it last year,( I am sure you are all aware of the hard work and time effort that is required behind the scenes ) which had participant's from a host of other regions, who attended 90% of the series and praised the club for all the hard work and effort that goes in to putting on the events. The series had an average attendance of 55 drivers per round.
We had some participants who slated the series on an open forum and yet attended and had a good days racing! even asked if we would run it again this year.
We have already received, an average of 30 provisional entry’s for each round,
including 5+ guys who are traveling 200 plus miles and have pre booked B/B’s.

On the back of last years’ series, the club was asked to put on a display day this year, it went really well and gained a lot of public interest, and we have already been approached to put on a further 2 events next year and I am in negotiation's on other things too.

I remember the (winter regionals) from 5-6 years back when I just returned to the hobbie and the numbers dwindled each round and was a financial loss to each club, and a lot of interest was lost as already stated in a previous post replys by COL. And then nothing was ever put together until Benfield last year.

I am sure I Highlighted last year whilst doing the drivers briefing. We received a lot of interest of driver’s from outside the region who were willing to travel to attend particularly from Scotland and the north west. but decided against it due to the unconstructive / negative comments on the local club forums. Looking forward if a regional series was to be put together I would suggest a structured committee of officials from all the clubs who wish to participate come to together in the new year and plan and co-ordinate the (worksop) like series correctly, (poss a summer and winter series) and not just throw a load of comments on an open public forum, Where prospective attendees are viewing.


P,s, if you wish to support Benfield’s winter series 2014-2015 please drop us a line confirming class 2wd -4wd or both plus age and we will book you in.

Regards
Benfield RC Club