HOW LARGE IS THE 1/10TH OFF ROAD COMMUNITY??

[WHITTLER555]

I am working today on lots of stats for my job, year end stuff, VERY BORING!

Whilst eating my lunch - diet induced fruit and a cracker..... with a fig roll YUM!

I was wondering how many people actually race?

So bearing in mind that you have three large meetings on this weekend,

Chadderton, Petit and Area 51

Would you say if we add up all the individual drivers at these meetings we pretty much have the overall size of the the racing fraternity in the UK?#

Would someone who is attending two of these meetings (STU) like to add them up?

DISCUSS

[tellor]

As there is only 47 doing the Petit and 21 of them are foreign you might as well discount those!

[Smartalec]

Originally Posted by tellor

As there is only 47 doing the Petit and 21 of them are foreign you might as well discount those!

47? The heat listing says 107 on Saturday!!!!!

[Dudders]

Thought about this myself. I'd stab at 3000 active racers of 1/10th and 800 racing each Sunday...

[footey]

ye you cant just say the 3 events this weekend as there will be lots of people race 10th just at local clubs

[Big G]

well there are 25 at my local club or there abouts, but only 1 completed the whole national season last year (me) and 3-5 compete in the regional series

and 0 are taking part in the 3 events mentioned above

[kaylon]

"Would you say if we add up all the individual drivers at these meetings we pretty much have the overall size of the the racing fraternity in the UK?#"

That would not even be a fraction of the number.. I race, but have never been to an event of this kind and I'm probably one of 1000's who could say the same.

oOple has over 14,000 registered members, now granted not all of them are racers and maybe not all drive 1:10th, but not all racers are registered on oOple.. so you can easliy make a guess in to the 1000's of people who RC 1:10th cars on a regular basis around the country.

J

[racingdwarf]

No idea

But man, you ate a fig roll??, yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuk

[Jamie B4]

3000 Not a chance! What about the club members at Southport, Stotfold, Broxtowe etc etc and the others that have commitments this weekend or would have been racing

[Dudders]

I remember MK saying he had 3000 on his Database once, so I am guessing only the larger shops could help....

[WHITTLER555]

One reason I asked the question was that a number of drivers are down to race at Chadderton but I KNOW they are going to Area 51 or Petit.

So, having three large meetings on the same weekend, I would suggest looking at the entry lists that two of those might not be as well attended?

I did not however take into consideration the number of club racers who ONLY race at clubs and have no interest in the bigger meetings.

Interesting......

[reg]

iv raced at 2 clubs,with probably well over 50 of them run buggys,i can think of probably 5 or 6 that do big events

[jim76]

the BRCA is probably the best bet. The application form has a section for you to tick your racing class if i remember correctly? Not sure if they actually log all the members into a databse though.

[john333]

I read somewhere that the BRCA has got 25000 members, I know that's spread over all the classes but I found that a staggering number! Most of them must race something each month to warrant paying out for membership each year.

[Stu]

The BRCA will know what the figures are, when you fill in your form it asks for what section you compete in.

Considering this forum has well in excess of 10,000 members I suspect the number you want is in excess of 2000.

[racingdwarf]

yer,now you say that,I remember that all the brca reps keep numbers of drivers per region per year.I think they all were then collected by the BRCA.also I can remember the sam rep said that he was told at a brca meeting held on dark night just how many people should be racing in our region,so there must be records

[colmo]

1/10th off-road is enjoying a boom in N.Ireland atm - attendances in the two regular clubs are up, and there are some travelling to Dublin to race at the Naul, so you're maybe looking at 50-60 active or semi-active racers, with BRCA membership and a recently used 1/10th buggy. None of them are attending the three meetings in the opening post because they're a) not important enough and b) too far away and thus c) too costly (luggage limits are a killer these days).

You'd easily have the same again in the Rep. of Ireland, most of whom attend Dublin MCC, and some of whom have BRCA membership for competing in regionals (N. Ireland is having regionals this year for the first time in a long time) and nationals. I don't think any of those went to these meetings either.

It would be a niche hobby in Ireland, due to thin population and thus increased travel requirements and lack of facilities (clubs need a critical mass of regulars to survive), so don't extrapolate 100 racers for 6 million people to 1000 racer for 60 million in the UK.

[HyperDunley]

Originally Posted by colmo

It would be a niche hobby in Ireland, due to thin population and thus increased travel requirements and lack of facilities (clubs need a critical mass of regulars to survive), so don't extrapolate 100 racers for 6 million people to 1000 racer for 60 million in the UK.

Now in English please

[colmo]

Originally Posted by HyperDunley

Now in English please

This might help http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/...ers-of-english :P

[chrispattinson]

I would think those attending the three race meetings you listed is a very small percentage of 1/10th racers in the UK. From our clubs (Tyne met, Seaham, Benfield) , I don't know anyone attending one of those events?