newbie help! wanna do regionals or nationals

[quincey]

im looking into doing a full season of offroad this year instead of touring cars,ive not got a f1,2,3,4,5, licence what ever one of them is? so how do i go about racing this year?
and where is there to race?im from chester, ive run at kidderminster with tamiyaclub.com so dont mind a bit of traveling as kidd is an ace track to go round.

[sosidge]

Chester I suppose would be in the North West region of the BRCA 1/10th off-road. I think there are a few decent clubs/tracks over that way but someone from your region will probably be able to tell you more.

You will start as an F5, regionals will be no problem for you to enter, at the end of the season if you do well enough your formula should improve.

Getting into nationals will be a lot tougher, priority goes to the higher formulas and the series has been oversubscribed for the past few years.

Just get out there and enjoy your racing! Ideally get a few club races under your belt before going to a regional, so you get to know your car and the driving style better.

[jimmy]

I did North West regionals last year - southport and bury metro tracks. Not as popular as the north easy by far but still good.
Vicky is an F5, (which is what you'll be since you just started in off road) and got into most Nationals in 2006, only a couple in 2007 and who knows about 2008?!? Worth a try though if that's what you want to do.

[super__dan]

CHester will be mid west, a very popular region.

Phil Sleigh is the BRCA rep, not got his contact info though.

[Lee]

To be honest when i lived over there nr chester it was always northern league and there were a lot more clubs running off road then, i know doddy and stan are from that area but i think they choose to do the mid west series for the competition.

Bury and southport are closer but the north east is a more competitive region and with bury, batley and york within an hour you cant go wrong

[quincey]

ive already done club race's at wrexham with my cars and i did do a bit of buggy racing back in the early 90's at frodsham but my stuff was quite dodgy back then(and still is now)i deffo wanna do regionals this year it will be great for me to meet some of the drivers i used to race with and to get away from the too serious touring cars will be great.
so does anyone know where the first regional is and how do i book in?
im already booked in for southport this weekend!! so its all go from there!!

[Lee]

if you mean the north east then i assume northy will have dates sorte in the next 6 weeks or so they usually kick off mid april (ish) There is an online booking in site which is in the regional section on here.

There is york indoor regional a week on sunday which will show you how things are done if you fancy it.

Its also worth noting, that you can only score points in one region during the summer.

[quincey]

is it worth doing the northeast and the northwest regionals also the midwest?(kidderminster) as ive got an old racing buddy who's done a coventry meeting

[matdodd]

Originally Posted by quincey

ive already done club race's at wrexham with my cars and i did do a bit of buggy racing back in the early 90's at frodsham but my stuff was quite dodgy back then(and still is now)i deffo wanna do regionals this year it will be great for me to meet some of the drivers i used to race with and to get away from the too serious touring cars will be great.
so does anyone know where the first regional is and how do i book in?
im already booked in for southport this weekend!! so its all go from there!!

If you raced at Frodsham in the 90's you might remember Phil, stan & Robin & I started racing there in about 93! Theres quite alot of people who travel from Elton/frodsham to the mid west meetings & were all going to southport on sunday so come over you might remember some of us. Were the noisey ones

Mat

[quincey]

i remember you! robin lucas.mark stanley,rob jones phil channon(he came in my model shop the other week!)