2012 Irish National Championship chat

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The dates are now posted in the Official thread. Well done to the committee for organising what will be the biggest championship for many years.

Many long discusions have taken place over the last 2 months whilst formatting the series. Here are some of the key developments for 2012;

1. To ensure the largest possible entry at the events, to facilitate drivers who can only race one day a week, to ensure that an adequate amount of marshals are available at each event, to keep the amount of weekends used up by the championship to a minimum, and to minimise date conflicts with other high profile events/championships and after a lengthy consultation with the committees from some of the clubs participating - it was proposed and unanamously passed that 2wd and 4wd should take place on the same day. The timing of the events will be sympathetic to those running two classes with a small break both between 2wd and 4wd races and the end of each round.
2. To re-introduce Northern Ireland into the series and to promote the sport in the region, NIMCC (Ballymena) will host Round 2. The track (Astroturf) has recently gone through alot of maintenance and is a superb facility. It was also decided to introduce NNN (Navan) as a venue - Navan have also conducted alot of work on their track. We hope more tracks both North and South will be encompassed for the 2013 season.
3. Points scoring for 2012 will be based on your final results only. No points will be awarded for qualifying.
4. The championship will endeavour to offer "driver net" at each event so that drivers can monitor the races on their wifi device during the race day.
5. All drivers intending on competing at any round of the championship must be a member of the RCCAOI and have paid both their membership fee (10 euro) and class fee (5 euro) by March 16th 2012. This is to ensure that the organisers can keep all racers whom intend on competing informed about championship news.
6. Anyone wishing to compete at RCCAOI events whom is not a paid up member by March 16th, will be permitted to enter the "Open" Class only. The Open class will purely be a "run on the day" - no results will be published online, and no awards given. Any car with any motor is permitted.