Summer Series / clashes discussion

[Dudders]

Great stuff, some dates for the diary

Is the series sponsored?

[wylie]

Can't make a single one this year as they either clash or i'm working.

[Nige]

Glad the dates have been confirmed - already added to my calendar!!

Is there going to be a raffle again, just love a raffle!!

[dibble34]

Originally Posted by wylie

Can't make a single one this year as they either clash or i'm working.

Gutted mate, think i can make 3

[wylie]

Were members consulted over date's as it appears that the 1/8th race calender was not viewed or considered, there are quite a few members now who do 1/8th as well and its a shame that they will not be able to support these meetings.
I no that the calender is rather full and it may be difficult to find gaps as there are limited Sunday's in a month (which is a shame).
Perhaps a review or consultation for next year on how we can try to accomadate more of the club members to attend these events.

[SteveB]

Originally Posted by wylie

Were members consulted over date's as it appears that the 1/8th race calender was not viewed or considered, there are quite a few members now who do 1/8th as well and its a shame that they will not be able to support these meetings.
I no that the calender is rather full and it may be difficult to find gaps as there are limited Sunday's in a month (which is a shame).
Perhaps a review or consultation for next year on how we can try to accomadate more of the club members to attend these events.

Tony and others:

I understand your frustration!!!!!!

But Ill tell you what! if everyone supplies Rob their "working schedules, holidays, other racing classes, family commitments, weddings" etc we can create a plan of meetings that won't meet anyones needs as we would not beable to deliver any meeting at all. Need I say anymore??????

However I did:

Basically our committee is made up of 1/10th racers who support there local club week in week out. We do our best when considering dates and clashes with other formats and our members requests.

I did'nt see an email come my way from other clubs advising there dates and so forth?

These dates were published before other club meetings also not all publishing all their dates as well. Therefore why should we wait to publish ours dates to meet everyone else’s needs? If there was better collaboration between clubs this may have been improved.

Maybe a gate keeper of all dates could be managed next year and then planning will be more appropriate to all.

I appreciated the work Rob has done to find these dates with so much to consider. All the Committee were communicated these dates before they were published and were agreed.

Sorry this does not meet everyones expectation, but I’m sure this will not prove an issue with increasing numbers to the club over the all meetings going forwards.


Steve

[RobW]

Dates were set trying to spread them evenly across the 6 months.
Have avoided Mid South electric regionals and attempted to get SE regional dates but they were not available when we wanted to publish.
E-mailed Clanfield 1/8th club but no response and no dates on website.
Checked Slough (Remote World) 1/8th website and attempted to avoid their summer series – we have one clash with their summer series.

So yes, we did consider our members who race 1/8th and those who might be competing in electrc regionals but I cannot find weekends across the summer where there are absolutely no clashing meetings with other clubs or scales.

I can do little about peoples work commitments.

I think 2 ½ months before the first event is reasonable notice. If you are choosing to not attend because you are racing elsewhere then you are making a positive decision to race there, you are not being prevented from racing at TORCH.

Rob

[dibble34]

Steve i'll have a chat to you on Sunday if you want. I don't think it is doing the club any good discussing on an open forum.