Ardent Raceway Winter Series to include 10th off-road?

[lotussmart]

Hi 10th Electric Buggy Racers,

We are launching this series initially aimed at the on-road world (as we are an on road carpet track) www.ardentracing.com/winterseries but I would like to invite the 10th Scale Buggy racers to the party and change our 480sqm permanent track into an awesome buggy track once a month.

I would pick a weekend that didn't clash with the mighty Worksop and it would be a 2 day event starting Saturday and finishing Sunday. Saturday would be 2wd and 4wd practice with 2 rounds of qualifying. Sunday would be 3 rounds of qualifying and 2 maybe 3 finals depending on numbers.

The buggy drivers would share the £8K prize pot with the on road classes which includes passenger rides in the Kick Energy Rally Ford Focus cars, VIP access to the Kick Energy Rally show at Chatsworth House, hot air balloon rides etc..

I would do it over 7 rounds with a twist for the final round. It would actually be part of the Chatsworth Rally Show (outdoors on short grass) and it would expose the sport, its drivers and the series Sponsors to the 5000 people that attend the Rally show over the weekend (in June). take a look at http://www.ardentracing.com/winterseries/livevideo.php for more info on the Raceway and Rally Show.

The overall winner of the series would be invited to have a go at getting into the Guinness book of records for the longest ever RC jump with our 1/8th scale 22v lipo powered brushless HPI Vorsa and with a 40m carpeted runway. (we should be able to clear 30mtrs easy!!

Before I take the plunge I just wanted to gauge if this is of interest to anyone?

Cost per weekend would be £10 for the two days of practice/racing. If you can't make the Saturday Practice then the track will be open for practice on the evening of the Saturday, to give you some extra prep time.

Fancy it anyone? I'd also do a 15% discount if you book and pay in July.

[dbizzle5]

Sounds awsome! Ill be there.

[deepdale11]

count me in!! sounds great!

[chris brown]

Sounds good to me too. I would def be interested.
Are you chaps planning on building a permenant off road track up there any time?

[chris brown]

Oh, can i ask to be clear. Will this be done on the same weekend as the onroad championship as I was planning on racing in that. For example are you putting in a few ramps for the buggies inbetween on road races or is this going to be done on a totally seperate weekend?

[lotussmart]

Originally Posted by chris brown

Oh, can i ask to be clear. Will this be done on the same weekend as the onroad championship as I was planning on racing in that. For example are you putting in a few ramps for the buggies inbetween on road races or is this going to be done on a totally seperate weekend?

Totally separate weekend. :-)

[David Church]

Where about in the country are you located??? This may help people decide if they want to go???

[dbizzle5]

Its in donington Dave.

[lotussmart]

Originally Posted by chris brown

Sounds good to me too. I would def be interested.
Are you chaps planning on building a permenant off road track up there any time?

Yep, permanent buggy track is in the plan for later this year. :-)

[nottmboy]

Originally Posted by dbizzle5

Sounds awsome! Ill be there.

i assume you mean so long as it's not the 1st sunday of the month as you will be at broxtowe

[/tobys]

sounds like it could be good....

however, IMO, a 2-dayer seems a bit intense for a winter series and having practice all saturday for those that that don't have other commitments (such as work, family etc) perhaps provides too much of an advantage.

maybe a straight 1-dayer would be a fairer series...?

correct date selection is going to be important too.

the winter is going to be pretty busy this year

[madonrc]

Originally Posted by /tobys

however, IMO, a 2-dayer seems a bit intense for a winter series and having practice all saturday for those that that don't have other commitments (such as work, family etc) perhaps provides too much of an advantage.

maybe a straight 1-dayer would be a fairer series...?

Agreed

[OldTimer]

I am up for this, and i am sure i can get some of the hinckley guys to come over as well

As others have said a two day meeting could be tricky for some and i would be able to just make the one day most of the time.

If you ran minipins, or maybe have schumacher minispikes as a control tyre, as lots of people will already have these from the racing in the summer. So save a bit of cash for people.

Will you be planning on maybe having a off road meeting before the winter series starts?, so we can see if there are any problems and to see if anything needs to be fine tuned ?. Happy to pop over and help out