Women and children?? why not?

[Team No Idea]

Can i just say a quick "well done" to my good lady Tracy, Not only does she not mind me blowing my wages willy nilly on model cars but last night she got up in front of all the lads at my local club (Faversham) and had a bash at this racing m'larky!
Also a big thanks to everyone at the club for being very supportive, helpfull and encouraging female drivers........oh and picking her car up every now and then and pointing it back in the right direction !! Cheers chaps! the cakes will be on tap as usual for all next wednesday !.
Also thanks to Hannah and Jodie (the other ladies racing at the club) for helping trace get up and do it!
I only started racing cars last October (although i've collected them for many years) so its all fairly new to me, however it does seem so far to be very male dominated. Also throughout the year doing the regional championships, i have not seen too many youngsters attending. Why is this? should we not be doing a bit more to encourage new drivers into this fantastic sport? is this something that has been asked before?? I am a motorcycle salesman by trade and have spent many years in and out of Club, Superbike and GP paddocks where the same thing is always happening! you get the odd biker chick who can ride faster than a lot of the chaps, but they rarely get the decent team rides or the recognition they work so hard for. Also the kids, the future of the sport, the up and coming talent for the future, only seem to get anywhere if the parents re-morgage the house 20 times over to fund it !. We have a sport here that is sooooo much fun, easy for anyone of all ages and sexes to enter, it can be done on a budget and is something we/YOU all love doing!,
So maybe we should blow our own trumpet a bit, shout about it and get more people the opportunity to share it............

1 last thing ....... well done to FORCC for the regionals this year, where they had enough juniors to have a race all of thier own !!

thanks for reading my late night ramblings of a mad man !