fresh ideas for racing (all/any classes)

[Chris Doughty]

I am reading and when talking to people (who do all forms of RC from on-road, off-road, nitro or elec) they feel like they need a change.

so...

what do you think your current class of racing lacks, or what do you think is an apealing aspect of another class of racing

for fun - here is a start... :P

I do touring car racing and its boring coz its flat...

OK, so that was a joke(ish) but does anyone have anything sensible to contribute (not holding out much hope on here, but I would welcome a suprise...)

[telboy]

Can we make off road any better than it is already?

On road just need more jumps and to run in grass and it'll be sorted!


Just joking....in case you wasn't sure.

Possibly a stock or beginners class at regionals? just to get the youngsters into racing without the intimidation of running with the regular faster people.

[twisty]

Super special stage rally.On road scale bodys with off road capabilitys.
Easyish to set up trackwise,cars running on a mixture of surfaces both 2 and 4wd,all scales and motive powers.

Get yer wedge out

[DCM]

touring cars... go back to REAL car shells...... dirt track.... rallycross shells....

I would love to see the Traxxas Slash series, but I think, if it isn't on a loose surface, you would lose the appeal.

[Northy]

Just more running would be good for me, that's the appeal of Nitro. I loved the Neo, 10 minute quals, 30 minute finals

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[telboy]

Rally has been done before and wasn't that successful unfortunately, I enjoyed it.

Baybe with Lipo we could run longer heats?

[Lee]

I think it would be good to have a round by round score but have 2 scores per round, one for your fastest lap of the run and where that individual lap would put you in each round and then you actual time round score as we currently have, add these together and that is your round score.

It would make things interesting having a balance of consistancy and speed

[bert digler]

Originally Posted by Lee

I think it would be good to have a round by round score but have 2 scores per round, one for your fastest lap of the run and where that individual lap would put you in each round and then you actual time round score as we currently have, add these together and that is your round score.

It would make things interesting having a balance of consistancy and speed

i think that the torc on road qualifying system is the best all though racing snoring cars is crap three rounds of qualifying and two finals for everyone seems to run a lot smoother and quicker than three a finals and one final for the rest

[telboy]

I must say, that I did enjoy the 2 finals when I did the BTCC.
But Round by Round quali would be even more stressful, because if you bugger the first 2 runs up then your whole day is buggered.
its much easier to run RbR with the 4 quali's that we have.
The 3 Q's and 2 F's works better with FTD qualifying.

[Chris Doughty]

I would like to see/do more RACING, racing against the clock with a 'coach' telling you how fast you are going and how much faster you need to be going to get TQ or whatever you are trying to acheive is one thing...

racing with someone is another, I always get frustraited in the quallys, but love the finals, even if I bum out and end up in the C main, there is always someone to have a great race with and have a good laugh about it with them after.

[melissa]

Possibly a stock or beginners class at regionals? just to get the youngsters into racing without the intimidation of running with the regular faster people.[/quote]

I think that is a good idea.
Take my sister for instance who normally goes all over the track and gets in the way of the better drivers.

[vinny20]

Touring car is cool i like the speed on them its awsome

[Lee]

Dont you need to turn up to a meeting first vinny.

Im not sure about the 3 quals and 2 finals thing, i did a lot of meetings like this and to be honest it takes the shine off the final, because its not a 1 off race.

I understand having 3 leg A's though

[Lowie]

I really like endurance-racing,

or what about team-racing, where you have to drive on turns (your teammate's car gets in, yours leaves, leaves you the time to switch battery, ...)
With such races it also about consistency and proper preparation. I have often seen that the winners where not those who made the fastest lap.

some other idea (yeah, I played Trackmania too often) why not build in a looping, even for Touring

[frogger]

I think we lack better facilities and need more people racing. I want to go somewhere that is not affected by the weather. It needs to be open 24hrs a day, with good food and drinks on site (it would be even better if there are good looking waitresses bringin the food directly to the pit table and some trophy girls to talk to), a shop that is uber cheap needs to be on site as well, it needs to be a busy place and there needs to be constant races going on. They should instead of giving you a trophy give you prize money.

[Lee]

Originally Posted by frogger

I think we lack better facilities and need more people racing. I want to go somewhere that is not affected by the weather. It needs to be open 24hrs a day, with good food and drinks on site (it would be even better if there are good looking waitresses bringin the food directly to the pit table and some trophy girls to talk to), a shop that is uber cheap needs to be on site as well, it needs to be a busy place and there needs to be constant races going on. They should instead of giving you a trophy give you prize money.

If carlsberg made RC venues.........

[bigred5765]

we did the 1/8th Byron junior challenge at frankley at the weekend,the turn out was twice that at 1/10th juniors, and i think what made its so much more popular is prizes and gifts for winning, fastest lap,and top 3 etc,not more fun but more incentive to turn up.

also they had under 13's 16's and 19,s

[MikePimlott]

Originally Posted by frogger

I think we lack better facilities and need more people racing. I want to go somewhere that is not affected by the weather. It needs to be open 24hrs a day, with good food and drinks on site (it would be even better if there are good looking waitresses bringin the food directly to the pit table and some trophy girls to talk to), a shop that is uber cheap needs to be on site as well, it needs to be a busy place and there needs to be constant races going on. They should instead of giving you a trophy give you prize money.

Roll on worksop (allmost)

[ianjoyner]

If I had 5 stock Slash's and a small dirt track I'd love to try racing them with my usual racing buddies. Dunno if this would quickly get boring / serious, but even if it did it would probably be worth it while it lasted...

As a class it would surely work well for newcomers too.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yNKbhUVFd4k

[LBC]

Originally Posted by DoughtyUK.net

I would like to see/do more RACING, racing against the clock with a 'coach' telling you how fast you are going and how much faster you need to be going to get TQ or whatever you are trying to acheive is one thing...

racing with someone is another, I always get frustraited in the quallys, but love the finals, even if I bum out and end up in the C main, there is always someone to have a great race with and have a good laugh about it with them after.

This is what's sadly lacking.....proper racing!
You can't beat the excitement of a race - something I've been advocating for years!