General WRCA / AGM thoughts...

[blue_pinky]

So, the thread about pricing has brought up a number of other good discussions. I thought maybe we could have a thread for more general discussion, and leave the pricing thread for pricing!

From what I've seen the WRCA region suffers from a lack of people/turnout, both in terms of organising and racing. We seem to have a few more people being vocal on the electric side at the moment, so maybe we should see what ideas everyone has?

Up to now the lower numbers have meant that the nitro and electric sections are both being run by a small group of people who have taken their own time try and do the best they can for both.

Those people have mostly come from the more popular nitro side, so naturally, some decisions have been made to better suit the more supported class, which I can totally understand!

For a time this has been a benefit to both sections on a number of levels, as we have at least had events and races and reasonable turnout's in total, but the trade off has been the inevitable compromises that are made by both classes to accomodate it...event schedules, race costs, marshalling, etc, etc.

It seems to me that with electric interest possibly rising a little this year, or at least a few more people having opinions that they are willing to voice that maybe the time has come to think about voicing them properly (via AGM!?!) and trying to remove those compromises the best we can.

With the nature of the tracks/facilities we have available in the region, the link between nitro and electric has to be there on some level though.

Without the nitro tracks we have in the area, the electric series could look more like a club series, so we still need their support! Am I right in thinking the only completely non nitro track in the series this year is Caldicot? And that's not even a permenant facility. I know Cobra could be another, but I don't know of any others?

So, after all this waffle...

Who is the Electric offroad head on the WRCA currently? It was Craig in 2009, but it's not this year as far I know?!?! I guess that's the person we should talk to about this stuff ultimately!