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[EZLEDZ]

Hi, i'm looking to join a club for racing or, just a knock about, seems a waste leaving cars on the top shelf.

I will be running a tt-01 or nitro, electric prefered though.

I have looked on the net (BRCA) and have found one venue which is 100 mile round trip from Driffield to Grimsby, an hour & half drive.

It starts a little late at 5.30pm and finishing at 10.30pm and race only on a wednesday, i will find this hard to keep up.

I have two little fellas 7 & 9 years old who want to go but, for school in the morning they will be soooo tired.

Anyone know of a closer venue to Driffield in East Yorkshire, HULL would be ideal.

Grateful for any  recommendations anyone has.

ThanX in advance. [au]

[twisty]

There is a club in York http://www.yorcc.org.uk/index.htm  ,mainly off road buggys but saloons every 3rd saturday.

and another in Leeds /Garforth,mainly touring cars.

http://www.gtcc.me.uk/index.html

 

[EZLEDZ]

Thanks, i have checked them out. one of them seems to be having location problems & something i did'nt know, you need a BRCA licence.  It's only a tenner i suppose.  You learn something everyday.

I may take the lads down to Grimsby to check it out (spectate & ask a few questions) and try out the york venue.

Thanx

[terry.sc]

Best place to find out about local clubs is to ask at your local model

shops. The BRCA website has a list of clubs but those are only the BRCA

affiliated ones, there are a lot more smaller clubs around that aren't

but they aren't listed there.

You don't need a BRCA licence to race at local clubs, just at national

and regional events. The BRCA membership fee includes third party

insurance so if a club insists on BRCA membership it means the club

does not have to organise the insurance themselves. The insurance is

needed so if your car hits someone and injures them you have some

backup if they sue you for compensation. My club does not ask for BRCA

membership and I buy public liability insurance to cover all members of

the club instead, as club organiser I now know everyone is insured

without having to insist everyone joins the BRCA even if they are just

turning up to have a bit of fun. One advantage of joining the BRCA is

that the third party insurance covers you everywhere, so for example if

you are running your r/c car in a car park and you hit a full size car

and damage it the BRCA insurance would cover the cost of repair (but

not to your r/c car!)

Most clubs will let you race a few weeks without joining so you can see if you like it.

[fatboyslim]

  ...One advantage of joining the BRCA is that the third party insurance covers you everywhere, so for example if you are running your r/c car in a car park and you hit a full size car and damage it the BRCA insurance would cover the cost of repair (but not to your r/c car!)

Hmmm. does anyone know anybody who has made this sort of claim??

As I understand it the BRCA insurance covers you if you're running a car anywhere that 'YOU ARE LEGALLY ENTITLED TO BE' so without the landowners permission technically you would be trespassing and as such the insurance would be invalid!!

[twisty]

"Hmmm. does anyone know anybody who has made this sort of claim??"

Yes,unfortunately.

There have only been 4 or 5 claims in 25ish years i think.Most people do have some common sence.

Would you knowingly trespas? if you did and it all went wrong,i rekon you would deserve every thing you didn`t get,if you know what i mean?

I would have to read the small print,but if you didn`t know you should not of been there,the BRCA would still help.If you knew you were trespassing they wouldn`t give you the time of day,with out a fight.

Hope this helps

regards

simon f

[EZLEDZ]

[] Tried the hobby shop approach, not very helpful though.  I blew nearly £300  there about a year ago too.

I will keep popping into tamiyaclub, who knows someone may advertise a venue nearer to my location & keep searching the net.

Thanks for the info.

Mike

[twisty]

try starting a club EZLEDZ thats what all the other clubs did.

[EZLEDZ]

try starting a club EZLEDZ thats what all the other clubs did.

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If i had the cash ( [<)] a lotto win, heres hoping [<)] ) i proberbly would.  There would no doubt be a lot to it i'm figuring with buying land - building - track/s - licences - advertising - staffing etc.

Would be more or less smack bang in the middle of the UK.

Not an option for me at the moment, strapped for cash.

Cheers, Mike.

[terry.sc]

You need very little money to start a club. Most clubs do not have

permanent race tracks, just the biggest ones. Even those started by a

few friends meeting up somewhere and running their cars together. First

just put up a poster in your all local hobby shops to see if there are

enough interested future racers

All you actually need is a space to run in, everything else is a

luxury. If you want to run in the evenings you will need somewhere

indoors, it's a bit dark to run outside in winter, but that doesn't have to be expensive. School and village

halls are everywhere. My club runs in a small village hall and it only

costs £16 a week to rent (although it is discounted as I pay for the

whole year).

Once you have a venue you need something to mark out a track with. We

started like many clubs with old fire hose bought cheaply from your

local fire service. Filled with gravel or sand it makes a solid track

marker. Now we use boards made by cutting 100mm wide strips of plywood

held together with blocks of wood and parcel tape. Cheap and easy to

set up and take apart again. To start with you can just use anything

you have that won't move much when a car hits it, old car tyres are

perfect and I'm sure you would have no problem getting them for your

local tyre depot, it's cheaper for you to take them than for them to

pay to have them disposed of.

Like just about every long running club we started lap counting with a

stopwatch and marking everyones laps on a piece of paper. Add up the

ticks at the end of 5 minutes gives you the number of laps each driver

has done. If you want to be computerised any old computer capable of

running Windows 95 will do, our computer was donated by a club member

whose work was throwing out old laptops. Race software is available as

a free download. You don't even need a printer, just write down the

results after the race, although it makes it a bit easier. All you need

then is someone to press the number keys as the cars go past, a lot

cheaper than paying out for a transponder setup and all the extra

hassles that entails.

I run the club on my own, the racers set the track out at the start of

the night while I set up  the computer and book everyone in. If

I'm not racing I will do the lapcounting myself, if I am racing there

are one or two members who lapcount my races. At the end of the night

everyone helps clear away and that's it. There are no licenses needed,

the only extra is insurance. Either get your own public liability

insurance to protect yourself, it isn't a requirement and can wait

until you have enough funds to pay for it, or insist every member joins

the BRCA. That's it.