a "world championship" meeting

[Team Tom]

Hi all,

I was wondering the other day, could it be possibly to run all saloon classes at a whole "world championship meeting"

then you'd have the gold roof in hotrod, ministox and saloon stockcar all up for grabs

what are your thoughts?

Tom

[Simond001]

I'd race.

probably get Hairy back for that as well. Spoke to him today and tried to get him south for this weekend!

[MADMOUSE41]

Hi all,

I was wondering the other day, could it be possibly to run all saloon classes at a whole "world championship meeting"

then you'd have the gold roof in hotrod, ministox and saloon stockcar all up for grabs

what are your thoughts?

Tom

At last a young chap with good ideas,the young ones are talking more sense than some oldies.Totally agree make it like the real Spedeweekend, yeah hot stuff,all the real 1\12th oval racers together great thinking dude.Tom send me your number,setting up new website only for 1\12th oval in all Ireland,not anything like my old Doughnut one,this has venues,contacts etc.Count me in if I can get an entry..... if this goes ahead,best of luck for meeting Mouse

[Team Tom]

I garuntee if it went ahead it would knock the face off this earth with the numbers of people attending.

for example, the sussex open. a championship title up for grabs under the name of the well known county in the south, but nothing like the title of "world champion". and we've got 101 drivers and another pending so 102 drivers for the championship in sussex.

you can just imagine it. put minis and saloon stockcars into the equation too, then you've got your self one tip top meeting.

I know lots of people that wont attend the current worlds, because they have to travel a long distance only to be able to race one car. Some people see the point of view of it not being worth the journey. BUT, alot of people have either a mini or a saloon aswell and possibly would be much more inclinded to attend the worlds and race more than 1 car. surely this is a good thing?

thoughts guys and girls?

[terryhotrodbrin]

good idea but you would get a 150-200 people how can you fit that in in 2 days???? it was hard enough with 60 odd

[Team Tom]

thats the only issue

[MADMOUSE41]

If proper qualifying rounds took place for the Hot-Rods,bar a consolation race before it not an isssue.You could do a European Hot-Rod Championship as well Worlds would be one race,in line with real event.Just ideas lets all work at it,and see how we get on.Central location for all Manchester,Lancashire? just ideas Mouse

[MADMOUSE41]

Just a thought maybe I should move back to Arlington,seems I could get proper racing.....:cool:Mouse

[try again]

yep , have to say we should have a worlds for saloon stock ,minis,and even the bangers as well but might be a bit much to have over a weekend :( trying to sort two cars out will be hard and for three :eek: and having enough batts for doing it as well :mad:not even got any good ones for the hot rod so me would be a tad out of luck :o

[morbid]

good idea but you would get a 150-200 people how can you fit that in in 2 days???? it was hard enough with 60 odd

I used to race 8th stock cars 15 plus years ago. Up to 90 drivers only 6 cars per race, 3 heats each. Then Quarters, semis and the final. All done on the sunday.
After saturday practice and plenty of beer.

To help with time saloons and mini,s could have 10-12+ cars a race.

[MADMOUSE41]

I used to race 8th stock cars 15 plus years ago. Up to 90 drivers only 6 cars per race, 3 heats each. Then Quarters, semis and the final. All done on the sunday.
After saturday practice and plenty of beer.

To help with time saloons and mini,s could have 10-12+ cars a race.

Finally we are all waking up Tom Massey is one person on mainland I have the utmost respect for,he talks sense.........Suddenly I want to continue racing 1\12th oval,this thread is great shows others have same views.Just maybe all we can get it on the same pegging as real oval.Look at Spedeweekend how many classes do they run,only one World final it could happen for us,but we need to all agree.Can I just say suddenly this forum has come alive with great threads,still some silly politics but so that is to be expected,you want to be in classic car clubs to see bitchin........Yes and plenty of beer I buy the first round and craic,and banter after......cannot wait Mouse

[dp racing]

Yep great idear tom lad, I belive that in the hot rods we need more title meets and why not in the other classes too with the worlds just every 2 year would love to have a best in britain style meet with a format that was dun on ftd after 4 rounds with top 16 making 2 semi finals then top 4 from each to make a grand final to decide best in britain and gain the union jack roof , I rec if we had this and poss a european too it could only be good for 12th oval:cool:

[Mr Markup]

Like the sound of this.
Wish List.
Venue (must be able to accomadate track and up to 100 (?) people pitting
car parking for drivers and spectators)
Track
Race Control System
Race Director
Organisation Committee
Sponsership
Insurance
Food/Drink

This is just a start off the top of my head. Any other ideas??

[dp racing]

Well how about trying to speak to or involve sum full size oval drivers and have them give out tropheys and or maybe have a go? oh and how about not making the date clash with any other major meetings ;)

[Mr Markup]

That will be almost impossible because you will always clash with either a model meet or a full size one. I suppose we could do in the off season. are these the same in the model and full size calenders?

Will talk on the yogurt pot and string tommorrow as it is nite nite time for me;)

[MADMOUSE41]

Cheap to rent at moment a warehouse on a business park,over here I can get one for 200 quid for week-end,including public liability insurance.Plenty of car-parking at those,just an idea or a underground car park.....bit dark but generator and big lights maybe that is abit daft sorry.....Getting back to sense Best of Britain great idea,some of you chat to Ludlow,SHP etc,get a feature in Short Circuit mag,you guys have respect use it.....Nice to see you on here DP...kind regards Mouse

[Team Tom]

sorry posted in wrong place

[terryhotrodbrin]

Yep great idear tom lad, I belive that in the hot rods we need more title meets and why not in the other classes too with the worlds just every 2 year would love to have a best in britain style meet with a format that was dun on ftd after 4 rounds with top 16 making 2 semi finals then top 4 from each to make a grand final to decide best in britain and gain the union jack roof , I rec if we had this and poss a european too it could only be good for 12th oval:cool:


good ideas ftd etc and instead of mixed heats maybe do seeded. wycombe done one and it worked perfect.
i know i wld attend:D

[terryhotrodbrin]

Well how about trying to speak to or involve sum full size oval drivers and have them give out tropheys and or maybe have a go? oh and how about not making the date clash with any other major meetings ;)

carl boardley was sussosed to be there dont know what happened to him???

[Stox216]

Yes good on paper.

It always falls down to the same few to organise and run these events, a few say we willl be there, but for everyone of them, not so sure.

In the Stockcars we have titles for, Worlds, European, British, English, Scottish, Welsh, and as the Hot-Rods the worlds title is up for grabs every two years as is the European,
We are just about to go over to Holland for the European event, fantastic weekend of racing and fun, but guess what little support from our section, it will be the same racers that support this event, in February we are going over to Holland to contest the Worlds, it is being hosted by the Fryslan 1 club at the racing expo show in Lleuwarrden, want to bet it will be the same few that support this event, with an odd one or two that make an effort, the Scottish and Welsh titles are run during a BRCA national, i.e. the winner of the final collects the title, not enough support to run a seperate meeting, the English title has not been contested for a few years, not enough interest, and the British Open title has not been run for a number of years also, however we have a meeting for this title coming up at the Hathern club.

The moral of this is too many meetings and titles takes away the interest and prestige of the thing, this is one of the reasons the Worlds is run every two years, with the Stockcars the Worlds is run one year followed by the European the following year, so there is a major title up for grabs every year, not forgetting the national points title every year,
We also have four classe's of racing at the nationals, do we need any more?
we are in a situation where the nationals are struggling for support, support these and there might be a call for bigger meetings if numbers of racers indicate this.

Look at the facts, yes the Hot-Rod worlds were a success, but remember the last time, lack of support! caused the cancellation of the event first time.