Ideas about the Spring Championships

[bedsrcmcc]

With just one round left now for the clubs Winter Championships, I'm now thinking forward to the clubs Spring Championships that start on Friday 23 April 2010 - that's right, only 4 open meetings in between the championships!!

Anyway, we are going to keep the points system as they are now that's for certain and running best of 5 from 7 will also remain but I wanted to put some ideas out there for club members to discuss as alternative ways of running the Championship.

Now I appreciate that many users view these posts who are not members of the club, we always appreciate your posts and thoughts, but I want to get the thoughts and views of our club members so come on guys, do not feel afraid to have your say...

Firstly we can change nothing and run as we have this time, that's always an option, but I have some ideas up for discussion as follows:

• Rather than having the same track throughout the championship, having a diffferent one from our selection of 20+ tracks each round
• Running 2 x 2min Q heats and 2 x 6min Finals
• Running 3 heats of 1:18th rather than the crowded 2 heats, though this option would require us to look seriously at running until 11pm which with the current numbers racing will not leave the club out of pocket

Feel free to comment and offer other ideas which we will put to the vote before we start the Spring Championships.

[bedsrcmcc]

Another thought...

Should we limit tyres to one compound rather than having choice of minipins or rally blocks so that all drivers are running on the same tyre to level out any potential gain from one or the other?

Again, this is just a thought to get the discussion going...

[mc_mclovin]

Just a thought on this one....which i hope to be joining in on!! time permitting!!

Maybe for the 7 rounds, use 3 track layouts...with each being used twice each during the championships, round 1 through 6, and a vote by all involved in said championship (taken once each track has been run once) to decide which track to run for a third time in the final round!

hope that makes sense...means that drivers have a chance to learn a track, develop/tweak setups etc...but stops the familiarity of running just one track all championship.

[bedsrcmcc]

Originally Posted by mc_mclovin

Just a thought on this one....which i hope to be joining in on!! time permitting!!

Maybe for the 7 rounds, use 3 track layouts...with each being used twice each during the championships, round 1 through 6, and a vote by all involved in said championship (taken once each track has been run once) to decide which track to run for a third time in the final round!

hope that makes sense...means that drivers have a chance to learn a track, develop/tweak setups etc...but stops the familiarity of running just one track all championship.

I like that idea, I was thinking of something similar on the lines of two tracks, but three would add a little more spice. I for one have got bored of the track we are currently running, I guess my drop in form has not helped We have 22 track layouts so we might as well play with them...

[Ross]

7 Rounds.....7 different tracks, qualifying is for learning the track. Which then leads to too the next question, why don't we have 3 qualifying and 1 final?

[bedsrcmcc]

Originally Posted by Ross

7 Rounds.....7 different tracks, qualifying is for learning the track. Which then leads to too the next question, why don't we have 3 qualifying and 1 final?

Interesting... would you have 3 x 3min qualifying and a longer single final maybe, say 6 or 7 mins?

[Smartalec]

Originally Posted by Ross

7 Rounds.....7 different tracks, qualifying is for learning the track. Which then leads to too the next question, why don't we have 3 qualifying and 1 final?