Moto Arena First Off Road Club Night

[tellor]

According to Moto Arena's advert in the December '10 issue in Radio Race Car, Moto Arena are running 1/10th off road buggy nights starting from Tuesday November 9th.

The place is massive, i'm really looking forward to going.

Does anyone know what time it starts?

What are the best tyres to use?

What surface will they be using?


Thanks,
Tel

[mk2kompressor]

It will be Tarmac mostly with carpet over the jumps and generous landing strips
I've run my zx5 on the flat stuff with bald ballistics and White compound minipins with good results, just got to get the bumps and jumps made

[budgio]

Tuesdays are good for me.Looking forward to it.

[RogerM]

I might pop along on occassion too.

[Smartalec]

Originally Posted by mk2kompressor

It will be Tarmac mostly with carpet over the jumps and generous landing strips
I've run my zx5 on the flat stuff with bald ballistics and White compound minipins with good results, just got to get the bumps and jumps made

Matt, this needs to be advertised properly on here, it's ok putting it in Radio Race car but to be fair it's not the best read magazine in the world.

This is the best place to promote any off road event and no one would have known it was on unless the fella opened this thread.

We were up there with you last Wednesday and you never mentioned it!!!! .......... i've just been to Ardent with nearly 130 off roaders, I could have put out a couple of hundred flyers promoting it if you'd said.

So can we have some idea of the format?, how many rounds of qualifying, round by round, TQ, 2wd and 4wd separate or mixed, do we book in advance or on the day, how much is it, what time does it start??????

Alec

[khristina]

i am wondering about the rc car, i like mini austin and anywhere can have mini austin racing only ?

[mk2kompressor]

It will be dude, I'll call you for input on the jumps( making them this week)

[JCJC]

Bet just having regular meeting would be the best start, jumps can be added as the weeks go by, will need modifying as you go along anyway, bumps/ripples and kickers are easy and quick to do, tabletops, banked corners, crossovers and wall of death's take a little while. Be nice to see this up and running. May have to get a mini austin myself (sorry).

[F1END]

Good news, except I can't do Tuesdays

Will the off-road track be set up at any point for practice? If so, when?

[lotussmart]

Matt, try and avoid running the buggies over areas of the track where touring cars need grip, just rebuilt our track from the weekend and it's amazing how the buggies strip additive off the track, the small patches that were not covered look like new carpet now the grip has been taken away and I am sure this will be the same for asphalt, luckily they are off the racing line so doesn't matter, but we didn't realise the affect they would have. Great crowd though and great eaters. Cafe sold out! :-)

[RogerM]

Is that polite for greedy bunch??

MotoArena take note; jacket spuds FTW

[davidmog99]

I have visited Moto Arena and the facilities are fantasic. Better than anything i could have imagined for an r/c track.
It does however confuse me why they organise events, but dont communicate with the relevant people who could bring hundreds of racers along?????????

[mk2kompressor]

im picking up the pieces from the last 2 months of "events" so please bear with me

Jackets can be done no problem

thanks for the heads up John, ill let you know how we fair, need to call you soon too

[F1END]

No disrespect, but something really needs to be done about communication from Moto Arena. Are you in charge of media/press mk2kompressor? Or do you even have a press person at moto-arena? IMO, you need one.

For a start, there is still no official news about this, either on here or the moto-arena website. How do you expect people to turn up if you don't tell them about it? I'm sure if you asked Jimmy he would probably put a news item on the home page?!?

Also, so far in this thread 10 questions have been asked, none of which have even been acknowledged, let alone answered. If you don't know the answers yet, why not say something about when you will know answers by, so we at least know our questions are being thought about.

Lastly, people you are already speaking to know A LOT of people in this hobby. Word of mouth is the best form of promotion. Missed opportunity.

What happened to the idea of getting Silverstone Radio Controlled Model Car Club to organise the off-road nights? They have experience organising this kind of thing, and will bring more people in.

As I said, I don't mean to insult anyone, it's just frustrating seeing opportunities wasted as this venue could be great for the hobby in this area.

[mk2kompressor]

Originally Posted by F1END

No disrespect, but something really needs to be done about communication from Moto Arena. Are you in charge of media/press mk2kompressor? Or do you even have a press person at moto-arena? IMO, you need one.

For a start, there is still no official news about this, either on here or the moto-arena website. How do you expect people to turn up if you don't tell them about it? I'm sure if you asked Jimmy he would probably put a news item on the home page?!?

Also, so far in this thread 10 questions have been asked, none of which have even been acknowledged, let alone answered. If you don't know the answers yet, why not say something about when you will know answers by, so we at least know our questions are being thought about.

Lastly, people you are already speaking to know A LOT of people in this hobby. Word of mouth is the best form of promotion. Missed opportunity.

What happened to the idea of getting Silverstone Radio Controlled Model Car Club to organise the off-road nights? They have experience organising this kind of thing, and will bring more people in.

As I said, I don't mean to insult anyone, it's just frustrating seeing opportunities wasted as this venue could be great for the hobby in this area.

Answers to the jumps are coming, im playing with different options at the moment.
Im not sure about the austin's coming here to race though
I had to put the offroad club dates in the mag due to deadlines, the website will be updated asap with all the current stuff we are working on but my main job at the moment is finish the track

We have been in talks with Silverstone club but so far nothing has been set in stone.

[lotussmart]

Originally Posted by RogerM

Is that polite for greedy bunch??

Really caught out the catering crew, full english and jacket spuds were the best sellers :-) Also more bog roll than normal, think the two are related ;-).

Matt you are doing a grand job, I know it isn't easy. Can we bring our buggies to a buggy club night? About time we came and had a play :-) Maybe arrange an Arena/Raceway challenge for 2011?

[mk2kompressor]

Come up when you like mate, an inter club championship sounds awesome

[lotussmart]

Cool!! :-) Chat when I come down. Sorry, first Buggy night is when?

[mk2kompressor]

Tuesday pm

[Smartalec]

So can we have some idea of the format?, how many rounds of qualifying, round by round, TQ, 2wd and 4wd separate or mixed, do we book in advance or on the day, how much is it, what time does it start, can we use PT's??????