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Post by Big Paul on Nov 21, 2011 12:24:03 GMT
As title what improvement to the club would you like to see.
I don't want arguments just suggestion's.
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Post by Captain on Nov 21, 2011 13:10:36 GMT
Easy one for me, race every week..... ;D
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Post by Graham D on Nov 21, 2011 16:57:16 GMT
Personally I think the club is pretty well run, my only complaint would be that you need a little more time in between heats to get your car sorted/ fixed etc.
other than that Paul gets the carpet down pretty quick and a people help lay the track, some are a little reluctant help put away but its overall run pretty well.
The tracks could do with a update maybe as alot of the track were deigned with a lot slower motors in mind.
other than its all good !!
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Post by Graham D on Nov 21, 2011 16:58:50 GMT
On a side note, just because of Capt's comment is the club running a winter series this year??
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Post by Browny on Nov 21, 2011 17:11:49 GMT
The only downside with longer intervals, would be less qualifying rounds. I think the club does well to get 4 lots 4 qualifying heats in and 4 lots of finals.
Everything went pretty well on friday night and found it a thoroughly enjoying evening.
Marshalling was great and the driving etiquette was great in my opinion.
As graham says though, people can be a little reluctant to help pack away. The faster it goes away the sooner we get away. Simpleeeeeees!
Other than that, a great club to be part of!
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Post by neil on Nov 21, 2011 17:51:41 GMT
3 heats, 1 final, Free practice/track sweep run.
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Post by Big Paul on Nov 21, 2011 19:38:36 GMT
As Dan say's longer intervals would mean losing a round. But would it be better to have a relaxing meet + free practice while race control sorted the meeting out.But this in turn would mean getting the track down quickly.
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Post by scotts17 on Nov 22, 2011 19:42:42 GMT
Free practise at start for a little while
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Post by swallow on Nov 22, 2011 23:21:33 GMT
Agreed with the flight lieutenant
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sherbs
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Post by sherbs on Nov 22, 2011 23:37:42 GMT
Would a weekly race meeting be an option?
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Post by Big Paul on Nov 23, 2011 18:06:48 GMT
I'd make one for every week, but its not a case of tern up and race. you need a race controller ect. Any volunteer's
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Post by Graham D on Feb 15, 2012 9:07:04 GMT
Since reading the thread on buggies, it had me thinking about boosting the amounts of current drivers we have a the club, I went into tags last week and noticed that the club poster was no longer there?  Do we have posters elsewhere MB models for example? tags was our only form of advertising that I'm aware of. We really could do with boosting numbers a bit as it benefits everyone at the club, more members/drivers everyweek means less fees or more money put into the club, new rostrums cost money and it wont be too long before new carpet etc. And most of all it boosts the competition which I sure we are all there for! ;D If anyone has other ideas that if we could post a few here and mention them to Paul next meeting. |
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Post by Browny on Feb 15, 2012 17:26:12 GMT
The way i'd improve it is to stop trying to remove the bricks at the end of the straight and leaving shards of carbon fibre all over. As for carpet, the carpet at Ardent is approx 10 years old already..from when the Derby club used to sort there own venue. And its been run on for 2 years permanently now at Ardent. So I'd say Donny's carpet has got quite a long lifespan still  |
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Post by nezk69 on Feb 15, 2012 17:42:45 GMT
Any chance of racing outdoors on the tarmac in Summer?
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Post by Graham D on Feb 15, 2012 18:52:03 GMT
Browny, the reason I say about the carpet is way back when when we got the new carpet in order to keep the 10yr warranty we ran mini pins and rally blocks, lets just say this was a mistake and probably the reason we have a low grip carpet now  wasn't thinking like now but in a couple of years, but kudos on your first idea we do tend to find bits of your xray hanging around the track still lol  Nezk69, I would run on tarmac but not the concrete thats urrent outside the hall, I can feel my car screaming no just thinking about it LOL ;D |
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Post by Browny on Feb 15, 2012 20:03:16 GMT
Hmmm, maybe so...sections of ardent did get used for the petit rc race weekend by the buggies...and thats not affected the grip really all that much. I think stocksbridge has the same grip level from the first run out tbh.
I think the struggle with donny is that the hall floor will be dirty, and that will get picked up on the underside and get transferred as the carpet is rolled away. And this would happen anywhere you went in my opinion. Given the amount of times the track is ran on at donny, the grip starts to come up in round 4 and the final.
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Post by sherbs on Feb 16, 2012 0:12:07 GMT
The levels of grip at Stocks has dropped massively since the foams have stopped smearing their juice on it, v similar to Donny now.
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Post by Browny on Feb 16, 2012 17:32:56 GMT
I never thought Stocksbridge had that much grip anyway...always felt about on par with donny.
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Post by "Super stud muffin" Fat Belly on Feb 22, 2012 22:24:16 GMT
Early practice session, apart from that Donny is a great club, I am so looking forward to coming back!!
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