What can we do to help our sport

[Team No Idea]

During my rookie racing season last year i have had mahoosive fun down at FORCC. Starting off as most of us do, crash, bang wallet and slowly improving as the year has gone on.
One thing i have recently started to notice however is that the general standard of driving at the club seems to be getting really impressive. The racing is faster and feels alot closer than it did just 12 short months ago. (does anyone else at FORCC feel this is happening or is it my imagination?)
Anyway, the younger members of the club are also flying round at the moment with good clean racing and often finishing the night well into the top 15. This is a massive pat on the back club in general !

I recently took part in the Petit RC and one of the young members of FORCC was there and put in some really impressive drives.!
Now this chap comes to FORCC week in week out and is on a similar level to alot of the teenagers at the club.
I think what im trying to say, is that i have come into this sport very late in life, i'm never going to make the A final at a regional or national event. I dont have the years of experience behind me but i do have massive amounts of fun. But already i can see that filtering youngsters away from their playstations and onto Model Cars is a huge battle to fight.
This just means that the ones who are coming along to club meets in general need to be helped along the way to regional and indeed national events so that we don't waste the talent that is already under our noses and also help to develop skills and hopefully keep the future of the sport safe.

Once again i will be doing the South east Regionals this year and no doubt ill have the lady with the cake in tow.
But this year i intend to make use of the empty seats in the car by taking along some of the yougsters from our club that have shown a keen interest in wanting to come along to meetings they would otherwise not get chance to go to.

I know its a subject thats comes up all the time and im sorry to bore you all to death. But i think we can all do a bit to keep model car racing as good as it is now.

Thanks for reading