New here too !

[Bravo]

I was there 4th Oct. Was with my son (Gamerwillz). We were v impressed. Everybody v friendly. Nice and relaxed and cool. Diane got chatting to us the w/end before. She saw us looking at the print-outs and came up and said "Want to know what it's all about?". Willz has a stadium truck, not really appropriate I know but Jimmy (I think his surname might be Storey or something like that) said Yeah come on down. I will fix you up with a hole in your car to take a transponder. William was horrified at the prospect of having a HOLE drilled in his pristine car. I said shut up and just do it. After his first race, he said "Oh my god it was worth it!".
He only came last once and in the final he was (very briefly) in third!
He is deaf and his main difficulty was in understanding what the start order was in the heats. He couldn't hear the announcements. Fortunately Andrew Riley was in his heats and could help him before the beeps went off. But if Andrew wasn't in his heats there may have been some difficulty. Anyway, it was fantastic. And everything went well. He is going to build a 2wd buggy and I am about a third of the way through building an HPI Cyber 10b (with a Team Lossi Xcelorin 7.5 turn sonsored brushless which I don't really understand how to programme at the moment).
So yes, Batley, you will see us again. My eldest son is also v keen on racing there. He saw the track years ago when he went swimming ! He only has a Hyper 7 Nitro 1/8th buggy at the moment, but Christmas is coming !
Sorry for the length of this drivel. I will shut up now......